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Welcome to the last issue of our e-newsletter for 2010, where the focus is on recent achievements and developments in Welsh sport.
We hope that you've enjoyed receiving our monthly e-newsletters over the past year, and that you will continue to support the WSA in 2011. For now all that remains is to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda.
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Sprinter O'Neill flourishes in her welshness
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Sprinter Elaine O'Neill became Welsh in a big way during 2010. The Loughborough-based student was picked for Wales at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi this year and, despite being born and bred in England, she has embraced the Principality with both hands... more
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Pearse 'confident' wales will have 2012 paralympic stars to cheer
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Peter Pearse is 'quietly confident' that Wales will have Boccia players at the 2012 Paralympics in London. And if the likes of Jacob Thomas and Karl Parish achieve that aim, then it will be, in no small measure, down to the man who has headed up the sport for the past three years.... more
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Hares gets deserved recognition after taking netball to the heads of the valleys
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It is often said that amazing things can happen when you put your mind to it. Catherine Hares, from Tredegar, is a shining example of just that. Hares has loved netball right the way through from school to her late teenage years. However, when she wanted to continue playing after her studies, she found that there was nowhere to go in her local community around the top of the valleys... more
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Bill Owen - a pedalling legend in Wales and the UK
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Bill Owen is too modest to acknowledge the enormous contribution he has made to both Welsh and British cycling over half-a-century dedicated to the sport. But, in November this year, 65-year-old Owen was re-elected for the third time onto the board of national governing body British Cycling... more
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A decade of bringing sport to kids
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Back in 2000, a new programme was launched to encourage kids into activities that would keep them fit and healthy. Now Dragon Sport has celebrated a decade helping those youngsters, with the help of thousands of associated people, get hooked on sport... more
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Benson takes bronze in british uni champs
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Wales had some good representation - and results - at the 2010 British Universities and Colleges Championships held in Gloucester last month. Aberystwyth University's Carolyn Benson returned with an excellent bronze medal for her efforts... more
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Dinsdale hopes that 2011 will be as successful as 2010
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Richard Dinsdale has enjoyed one of his best years on the amateur circuit across the country. Dinsdale, who is the professional at Parc Golf Club, Newport, led Wales in the PGA of Europe International Team Championships in Portugal a few weeks ago and then teamed with club captain Steve Hook for the PGA Pro-Captain Challenge in Turkey at the start of this month... more
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Coach Maynard helps welsh paralympic legend Hinton towards history
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Tracey Hinton may not be a name that rolls off everyone's tongue in athletics but she is one of Wales' real unsung heroes. Cardiff AC runner Hinton is aiming for her sixth Paralympics at London in 2012 which is more than any other Welsh competitor at the Games... more
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Bartley becomes first welsh senior world champion
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Chris Bartley proved a stroke of genius as he led the Great Britain lightweight four to victory by a single foot in New Zealand to become the first ever Welsh world senior rowing champion... more
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Harris prepares for the biggest campaign in years for Welsh Rugby League on all levels
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The year has been amazing for rugby league in Wales but dual code legend Iestyn Harris hopes that 2011 will be equally as good - if not better. Harris was assistant coach to Crusaders RL boss Brian Noble during 2010 and helped guide the team to a first-ever Super League play-off place... more
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The summer when welsh ace Creed's life changed forever
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No winter rest for wales' women stars
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The medals came thick and fast for the Principality in the Delhi Commonwealth Games swimming pool but national coach Bud McAllister knows there is no resting on laurels in 2011... more
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Wales honours legend Betty Gray
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The sporting term 'legend' is banded about a lot these days but, in the case of Betty Gray, it is entirely appropriate. When Betty first went to a table tennis club, it was during World War Two... more
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Wales is full of eastern promise
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Wales has been a fertile ground for martial arts in recent years. Judo, whose new Dojo at the Welsh Institute of Sport, Cardiff, was opened last year is one example... more
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Valleys icon is back from the brink of extinction
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One of the UK's biggest indoor climbing centres has been resurrected a year after it looked it may have closed for good. The International Climbing Centre just north of Treharris closed its' doors in October 2009 when tenants there left... more
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