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Wembley Calling For Five Welsh Players As Season Comes To The Boil
Four Welsh players are heading to Wembley and there could be a fifth by around 10pm on Friday night. Leeds United’s quartet of Ethan Ampadu, Joe Rodon, Dan James and Connor Roberts are all into the Championship play-off final after their 4-0 demolition of Norwich City. “Towards the end of the season, there was a lot of talk about how we were playing; how we weren’t on the front foot, how we weren’t aggressive, how we weren’t clinical,” said Ampadu.
Laura Rudland Urges Cardiff Dragons To Rock The House For Final Time
Cardiff Dragons goal attack Laura Rudland has urged her team to provide a memorable farewell to fans at the House of Sport in Cardiff when they host Loughborough Lightning on Saturday. The match is the Dragons’ last at the venue this season, before they switch to the bigger Utilita Arena in the capital for their final two home games. The move is part of the club’s strategy to try and increase their fan base in tandem with changes in the Netball Superleague aimed at growing the sport more broadly.
Gladiator Hollie Smashes Rivals To Land Sixth Successive World Title
Hollie Arnold won a sensational sixth consecutive world title to give Great Britain a golden start at the World Para Athletics Championships Kobe24.
Sophie Ingle Bids to Give Emma Hayes Perfect Chelsea Send Off
Sophie Ingle can help provide Emma Hayes with the perfect send off to her spell at Chelsea with a seventh Women's Super League title this weekend. Wales captain Ingle’s team are back in control of the race heading into Hayes’ final game in charge.
Scarlets Bid For Uplift After Season Of Struggle And Farewells
This time 20 years ago, the Scarlets were busy winning what was then the Celtic League and everything in their garden looked, well . . . scarlet. But 2024 appears very different to 2004 and the current side are reaching the end of their season 14th out of 16 teams in the United Rugby Championship.
Ethan Ampadu Insists Leeds United Can Roll All The Way To The Premier League
Ethan Ampadu has insisted he has never lost faith that Leeds United would make it back to the Premier League this season. The Wales star played another key role in guiding Leeds to a powerful 4-0 victory over Norwich City on Thursday night at a pulsating Elland Road.
Welsh Teams Struggling In The Era Of The Ugly Scoreline
It looked like a misprint. But it was true. Gloucester did indeed lose 90-0 away to Northampton. That’s 14 unanswered tries against a club with a proud reputation as representing one of the hotbed areas of English rugby, where regulars in The Shed are renowned for their noisy allegiance.
Osian Roberts Wins Promotion With Como, Takes A Bow . . . And Then Hands Back Reins To Cesc Fabregas
Osian Roberts has achieved hero status in Como after winning promotion to Serie A but has no qualms stepping back for Cesc Fabregas to resume his managerial career. The Welshman masterminded Como’s return to the top flight of Italian football after a 21-year absence last Friday, and the town famous for its lake, tourism and being the home of Hollywood actor George Clooney partied long in to the night. Roberts’ great friend Ian Rush, the former Liverpool and Wales striker, has already been in touch over plans to watch his old team play Como next season.
Alex Cuthbert Weighs Up Next Move With English Clubs Poised
Ospreys head coach Toby Booth has confirmed wing Alex Cuthbert is to leave the club at the end of the season. The departure of the Wales and Lions wing will bring an end to his three-year stay at the club, after joining from Exeter Chiefs in 2021. “This part of the season is always a tough time, especially when you have to say goodbye to players that have given a lot to the club over the years," said Booth.
Girls! Girls! Girls! Big Boost For Girls Golf In North Wales
More than 60 girls in North Wales can look forward to improved golf this summer thanks to the Girls Golf Cymru Programme which ran over the winter.
Menna Fitzpatrick
Menna Fitzpatrick . . . Inspirational International Woman Today, As Well As The 364 Other Days
Anyone looking for inspirational figures in Welsh sport in the week of International Women’s Day would be advised to check out the incredible efforts of Menna Fitzpatrick. Urdd Gobaith Cymru recently held their #FelMerch (translation: Like a Girl) conference in Cardiff to tie in with the annual global diary marker... Read More
Wales' Menna Fitzpatrick Becomes Britain's Leading Winter Paralympian . . . And Pays Tribute To New Guide Gary Smith
Menna Fitzpatrick hailed an immediate alpine connection with new guide Gary Smith as the key to becoming the most decorated British Winter Paralympian of all-time. Welsh skier Fitzpatrick, 23, won her fifth Paralympic medal in Beijing on Sunday by soaring to a scintillating Super-G silver. The visually impaired athlete claimed... Read More
Menna Fitzpatrick Won't Face Russian Athletes At Winter Paralympics After Dramatic U-Turn
By Hannah Blackwell
Menna Fitzpatrick will not be sharing the athlete’s village with Russian or Belarusion competitors at the Winter Olympics after a dramatic about-turn by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
Wales’ Paralympic champion Fitzpatrick is due to defend her slalom skiing title in Beijing when the Games starts this weekend.
She would... Read More
Menna Fitzpatrick Strikes Gold Again At Para Alpine Worlds In Italy
Menna Fitzpatrick made it double gold at the Para... Read More
Menna Fitzpatrick Adds To Medal Haul With Slalom Silver At Worlds
Menna Fitzpatrick struck slalom silver with guide Jen Kehoe at the Para Alpine World Championships in Slovenia. The Olympic champions finished 5.08 seconds behind Slovakia's Henrieta Farkasova and Natalia Subrtova who took gold. It was Mansfield-born Fitzpatrick's second medal of the championships after the British pair claimed bronze in the giant slalom... Read More
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