Welsh rugby• The Wales national rugby union team (Welsh:

Tîm rygbi'r undeb cenedlaethol Cymru) represent Wales in international rugby union. They compete annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland. Wales have won the Six Nations and its predecessors 26 times outright, joint-first with England. Wales' most recent championship win came in 2013. They also compete in the Rugby World Cup every four years. The International Rugby Board (IRB) regards Wales as a Tier One rugby nation.

Some of the players

Warren Gatland

Ryan Jones

Paul James

Gareth Bale

• Gareth Bale is a Welsh football player who currently plays for the Spanish football team Real Madrid and he earns £300,000 a week

Jo Calzaghe is a famous Welsh boxer. He has won many titles.

The 36-year-old Welshman, who reigned as a world champion for more than 11 years, quits the ring with a glittering record of 46 wins from 46 fights. "It was a difficult decision but I have achieved everything I wanted to achieve in boxing," he told BBC Sport.

Trained by his father, Enzo, he became British super-middleweight champion in 1995 before capturing his first world title in 1997, outpointing Chris Eubank to claim the WBO crown.

Geraint Thomas is a 2008 Olympic gold medallist who made his mark on the Tour de France, coming fifth in the prologue and second in the third stage as part of Team Sky, wearing the white jersey of the best young rider for four days.He also won the British road race championships and finished third in the British time trial championships.