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Luxury Limo Taulupe Faletau Revs Up For Cardiff And Wales
The player Cardiff Rugby coach Matt Sherratt described as a Rolls Royce will go through the gears for the first time in six months on Friday night. Taulupe Faletau - who broke his arm playing for Wales at the World Cup - will make his comeback in the capital city region’s United Rugby Championship match against Ulster in Belfast.
Jackson Page To Share Crucible Spotlight With Ronnie O’Sullivan
Welsh youngster Jackson Page will face history-chasing Ronnie O’Sullivan at the start of the World Snooker Championship. The 22-year-old Page, from Ebbw Vale, will share the spotlight as the sport’s best take to the green baize at the Crucible from Saturday, with the winner crowned in Sheffield on Sunday, May 6.
Gwennan Hopkins Makes Big Impact And Stakes Claim For Long Future For Wales
It took Gwennan Hopkins a mere five minutes to make her mark in international rugby. Not many teenagers score on their Test debut, but that’s exactly what the 19-year-old Hopkins did in Cork last weekend as she provided Wales with their only points in a 36-5 defeat.
Jamie Jones Makes It To The Crucible After Beating Former World Champion
Jamie Jones has qualified for the World Snooker Championship after ending a 20-year attendance at the tournament for former world champion Neil Robertson. Weshman Jones stormed to a in the final round of World Championship qualifying, meaning Robertson will miss out on the Crucible for the first time in two decades.
The Cardiff Bulut . . . To Fire, Or Not To Fire
Not for the first time since he purchased Cardiff City, owner Vicent Tan has a big call to make. Does he bite the Bulut . . . or fire it? Manager Erol Bulut is out of contract at the end of the season - his sole campaign in charge - and discussions over a new deal have not really gone beyond ordering the coffees.
Huy Of A Ride: Stevie Williams Powers Into Record Books
Stevie Williams bagged the biggest victory of his career when he became the first Brit to win the La Flèche Wallonne classic race.
Former Ryder Cup Wales Chief Rob Holt Is New Chair Of Wales Golf
The former chief executive of Ryder Cup Wales is to become the next Chair of Wales Golf.
Ken Owens Bows Out After 91 Caps And 20 Years Of Hooking
Wales’ most capped hooker, Ken Owens, has confirmed his retirement from rugby. The 37-year-old Scarlets forward – who has not played for almost a year because of a back injury – says he was advised to stop playing.
Gold Coins For Gold Medals Is Wrong, Says Cycling Chief
The decision by World Athletics to award prize money at the Paris 2024 Games goes against the Olympic spirit and solidarity among international federations, the head of cycling's global governing body (UCI) has claimed. Athletics became the first sport to offer prize money to Olympic champions when WA President Sebastian Coe announced last week that gold medallists in Paris will each earn £40,000.
Matt Richards Backs Olympic Prize Money As Way To Crush Enhanced Games
Wales’ world champion swimmer Matt Richards - one of five Team Wales stars selected for Great Britain at this summer’s Olympic Games - believes financial rewards for Olympic gold medals are the only way to shut down the controversial Enhanced Games. Australian freestyle swimmer James Magnussen has become one of the first athletes to sign up for the Enhanced Games. Magnussen will intentionally dope in an attempt to win $1 million by breaking a world record at the event.
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Virtual Racing Will Do Charlotte Arter For Now . . . But The Princess Of Parkrun Wants To Keep It Real
How has the fastest Welsh women over half marathon and world record holder for Parkrun been managing during 2020? A year from the re-scheduled Olympics and exactly two years out from the next Commonwealth Games, Charlotte Arter tells training partner Jenny Nesbitt what she’s been up to and how she... Read More
Sports Technology Has Taken Flight Like A Pair Of Nike Alpha Fly . . . And No-One Knows The Destination
You don’t have to be a ranting Premier League football manager, raging against VAR, to understand how technology is changing every aspect of sport. From parkrun to Eliud Kipchoge, sport is being dramatically altered. Graham Thomas speaks to some of those at the sharp end of the transformation.
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One Year On . . . And Charlotte Arter's Breaking World Records Again
Charlotte Arter is celebrating after repeating history by breaking her own parkrun world record in Cardiff. The Wales and Great Britain international took a second off her previous record at the weekend to finish the 5km course in 15 minutes 49 seconds. It was last January that Arter ran 15:50... Read More
Get Infected . . . Catch The Active Bug On National Fitness Day
Today – September 25 - is National Fitness Day. But don’t worry if you haven’t yet laced up your trainers, because – as Owen Morgan reports – there’s plenty of opportunity to start enjoying a more active life. National Fitness Day is aimed at highlighting the role physical activity plays... Read More