Celtic Dragons head coach Tania Hoffman has much to consider after her team were comprehensively beaten by new franchise Leeds Rhinos in their opening match of the Vitality Superleague season. The Dragons face a less than 24-hour turnaround when they take on Team Bath on Saturday, where they must hope for a rapid improvement. The Rhinos are the newest team in the Superleague, but they fired an early warning sign that they are likely to be dangerous opponents as they ran out 65-35 winners over an out-of-sorts Dragons who failed to get going.

Lauren Price had to settle for silver on her return to the ring after a 16 month absence at the Bocskai Memorial Tournament in Hungary. The 26-year-old lost a tough final against old rival and second seed Nouchka Fontijn of the Netherlands in the 75kg category.

At long last there is some good news for rally fans, with the announcement that the Builth Wells-based Nicky Grist Stages is pressing ahead with plans to run the event on Saturday 10 July. This positive news bucks the trend of rallies being cancelled because of Covid-19 restrictions – a situation that pulled the handbrake on rallying a year ago and is likely to keep rally cars in hibernation for the first half of 2021 as well.

By Hannah Blackwell Rebekah Robinson insists the Celtic Dragons can be the surprise package of this season’s Vitality Netball Superleague, which kicks off on Friday night. The Dragons’ co-captain will lead her team into action against the Leeds Rhinos – the league’s newest franchise – determined to make a fast start to the new season. […]

Laura Deas produced a battling second day display at the World Skeleton Championships in Germany. The 32-year-old Wrexham slider finished 15th overall after producing two runs that were among the top 10 fastest times in Altenberg.

Welsh boxers Andrew Selby and Jay Harris were sold the dream of world titles and untold riches when they signed with MTK Global, a management and promotional company. What was left untold was the murky dealings of founder Daniel Kinahan, as Fraser Watson explains. When Tyler Hamilton appeared on American CBS News show 60 minutes back in May 2011, you assumed something explosive was coming. Sure enough, the former cyclist proceeded to unveil the harrowing, explicit detail of the doping programme which had supplemented the US Postal team’s ascent to the top of sport. Or more specifically, Lance Armstrong’s ascent.

Lauren Price will bid to add another gold medal to her growing collection at the Bocskai Memorial Tournament in Hungary today. Despite being out of the ring for 16 months, middleweight Price has reached the final in Debrecen so it guaranteed at least silver..

Laura Deas is facing a second day battle to bag a top 10 spot at the BMW IBSF World Skeleton Championships in Germany. Wales’ 2018 Olympic bronze medalist was 18th after the opening two of her four runs in Altenberg.

By Paul Jones Josh Navidi has suffered another injury setback – ruling him out of Wales’ Six Nations clash against Scotland and joining a long list of sidelined stars. The Cardiff Blues forward – who made his long awaited comeback from concussion against Ireland last week – is thought to have picked up a neck […]

Despite winning the World Cup for Wales and enjoying his biggest individual career win so far, Pontyberem darts player Jonny Clayton says he plans to hold onto his full-time job for the time being. Having lifted the World Cup of Darts alongside fellow Welshman Gerwyn Price last year, Clayton, continued his remarkable rise by winning his first televised PDC event, the Ladbrokes Masters, last month. The victory saw Clayton pocket the £60,000 top prize and gain entry into the 2021 Premier League – a competition pitting 10 of the world’s best players.

Lauren Price and Rosie Eccles are guaranteed a medal double at the Bocskai Memorial Tournament in Hungary. World and European champ Price ended a 16-month spell out of the ring with victory over Gabriele Stonkute in Debrecen.

Wales’s ice queen Laura Deas spearheads Britain’s women at the World Skeleton Championships in Germany starting on Thursday. The Wrexham-born slider is part of a six-strong GB squad for the championships in Altenberg as the clock continues to tick towards next year’s Winter Olympics in China.

The first golf club in the world to sign up to the R&A Women in Golf Charter continues to make a big impact on equality of golf in Wales. Curtis Cup host venue Conwy Golf Club in North Wales felt signing up would bring focus to efforts already in place, becoming the first club in Wales to have been awarded the Charter and – as it turned out – the first in the world.

Melissa Courtney-Bryant broke the Welsh 1500m indoor record after obliterating her personal best by more than 10 seconds in France. The Welsh star clocked 4:04.79 in a remarkable race in Lievin that saw a new world record for  Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay and a British record for Scotland’s Laura Muir.

The “Everest of the Seas” is how they bill the Vendee Globe, the most testing individual event in sailing. Welsh sailor Alex Thomson almost reached the summit four years ago and this time there was a place on the podium for another competitor with Welsh links as Graham Thomas reports. Welsh sailing can claim a hand in the making of Louis Burton, who came close to winning the prestigious Vendee Globe round the world yacht race, which finished in the final days of January. Born in Paris, Burton is a Frenchman but attributes his love of the sport to his Welsh father, Michael, who taught his two sons how to sail on family holidays to the Brittany coast.

Rosie Eccles made a winning return to the ring at the Bocskai Memorial Tournament in Hungary. The Caldicot welterweight beat Italy’s Angela Carini by split decision in  Debrecen.

Geraint Thomas says the five-day Etoile de Bessèges race was the shock to the system he needed as he builds towards the Tour de France. The 34-year-old finished 49th overall – and joked that he almost got off his bike and ran the uphill sections of Sunday’s individual time trial.

For all those athletes cursing their luck and fretting over the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics to 2021, think again. A 12 month delay is nowhere near as bad as the one suffered by those hoping to go to the 1940 Olympic Games. Originally scheduled for Tokyo between 21 September and 6 October, the XII Olympiad, was rescheduled two years out to take place in Helsinki between 20 July 20 and 4 August.

Helen Jenkins kicked off her campaign for the 2021 season with a top 10 finish in this week’s virtual pro event held on Zwift.

Geraint Thomas has been told that 2021 does not have to be his last shot at a second Tour de France title. The 2018 Yellow Jersey winner has been told he will lead Ineos Grenadiers into Le Tour which starts in Brittany on June 26.