The last time the Olympic Games were held in Tokyo we were still awaiting the first individual gold medal by a Welsh athlete. That was back in 1964, yet when the Games return to the Japanese capital in a year’s time we will have one athlete chasing a third successive title. Lynn Davies may have
We are getting to that time of year again, when the new inductees to be added to the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame ‘Roll of Honour’ are selected by the trustees. Last year our ‘Roll of Honour’ numbers rose to 140 after five new names were added to the most exclusive list in Welsh sport
British cycling has never had it so good! Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas and now Simon Yates have been crowned kings of the road in Italy, France and Spain by winning the three Grand Tours. Froome still has more titles than the other two, but Thomas is the leading contender for the title of Wales’ greatest
Geraint Thomas’ epic Tour de France victory has come 51 years on from the debut of a Welsh rider in the world renowned event. Colin Lewis blazed the trail for Thomas and Team Sky teammate Luke Rowe when he took part in the 1967 and 1968 tours as part of a British team. It wasn’t
So is Wales obsession with cycling a new phenomena brought on by the recent golden success stories of Geraint Thomas, Nicole Cooke, Owain Doull and Elinor Barker? As Geraint Thomas prepares to make the final push towards cycling immortality by winning the Tour de France it is easy to say he is riding in the
If you are going to win an Olympic gold medal then you might as well add a world record for good measure. That was what the Team GB 4-man team pursuit squad managed to do in Rio as they elevated Sir Bradley Wiggins to the most decorated British Olympian with eight medals, five of them