Olympic cycling champion Elinor Barker says she feels sport will be one of the last things to return to normality following the coronavirus pandemic.

The 25-year-old from Cardiff, who won team pursuit gold at Rio in 2016, says there are more important things that need to come back before crowds return to sporting events.

In her Isolation Diaries, Barker reveals what life in lockdown looks like for her - from baking and Netflix to coping with her new makeshift garden gym.

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In other news, villagers are in "shock" after a man died following an alleged stabbing at a shop in a tight-knit community in Penygraig in the Rhondda valleys.

A 29-year-old woman from Porth has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an elderly man died after the incident at the Co-Op in Penygraig, on Tuesday afternoon.

Another man, who was injured, is being treated at the University Hospital of Wales, while two others have non-life threatening injuries.

Councillor John Lewis Cullwick said it was "very emotional" this morning as the community tried to "get to grips with what happened" at the store in the heart of the village.

He told BBC Radio Wales' Claire Summers: "This is just a village where this sort of thing doesn't happen, it's just very very shocking.

"The Co-Op is the centre of the village, it's where everybody shops, everybody knows the staff, they are very helpful."

He added: "It's absolutely terrible, we will all probably know the people involved...it will affect everybody in the village, it's very close, we all know each other and we will all be affected."

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There is not a blanket ban on over 70s leaving their homes during the coronavirus pandemic, the health minister has said.

Vaughan Gething said the Welsh Government was using a "common sense approach" to protect vulnerable and at risk groups during the lockdown restrictions.

Mr Gething was responding to comments by ex-Labour MP Ann Clwyd who urged Welsh ministers not to impose a "blanket ban" on the over-70s being involved in the easing of the coronavirus lockdown.

He told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers: "The advice we’ve given is that people over the age of 70 together with those people who have a range of underlying health conditions and people who are pregnant should be particularly stringent on following the advice and we’ve then got an extra category of people who are especially vulnerable, the shielded group of people, and we’re really telling them that we really, really want them to stay at home and we don’t want them to leave the house at all.

"That’s different to people over the age of 70 where the advice is to follow social distancing and be extra stringent about it… that's the advice as it is and we need to be clear that there’s not a blanket ban on enforcing and requiring people over the age of 70 to stay at home, but we’ve got to take a properly risk-based approach.

"We are adopting a common sense approach, it is informed again by evidence of harm."

The Welsh Government said over-70s were not included in the highly vulnerable group being shielded.

First Minister Mark Drakeford has written an open letter ahead of the bank holiday weekend.

In it he asks second home owners to "act responsibly" and stay away.

Among the many companies and organisations affected by the coronavirus are zoos.

They rely on money from tickets to pay to feed animals and for keepers to keep looking after them.

So how are zoos coping without paying customers? And are the animals doing OK?

BBC Newsround spoke to some of the biggest zoos in the UK and asked how they're coping, how the animals are getting on and how they're raising funds.

Among them was The Welsh Mountain Zoo in Colwyn Bay, which has not received any income since closing in March.

It is having to spend its emergency savings to pay the £30,000 needed every week to run the zoo.

It is making sure the animals are still well looked after, in the past few weeks the zoo has welcomed three baby ring-tailed lemurs as well as one baby pine marten, several Humboldt penguin chicks and some spring ducklings.

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Radio Wales presenter Carol Vorderman has urged people to stay away from the Brecon Beacons over the bank holiday weekend.

Vorderman, who grew up in Prestatyn, tweeted: "Animals are all that should be seen in the @BreconBeaconsNP this bank holiday weekend... but NOT HUMANS."

Thousands of small charities will receive a £10,000 business support grant to help them respond to the financial challenges of Covid-19, the Welsh Government's Finance Minister Rebecca Evans is expected to announce in her press conference later.

This new £26m package – an extension to the existing Covid-19 grants scheme announced last month – will support an additional 2,600 properties in the retail, leisure and hospitality sector with a rateable value of £12,000 or below.

This includes charity-run shops, sports premises and community centres which, until now, have not been eligible for this type of support.

There should not be a blanket ban on over-70s leaving lockdown at the same time as people without pre-existing medical conditions, the older people's commissioner for Wales has said.

Helena Herklots told BBC Radio Wales: “We do know that age is a risk factor in coronavirus but we know also there are other risk factors coming through, for example we know that obesity seems to be a risk factor and being male seems to be a risk factor as well.

“It is about understanding the risk and communicating that clearly but that doesn't mean there should be a blanket ban, that would be damaging very damaging for older people. It would be damaging for all of us…

“Some people over 70 will be working, some will be volunteering, they'll be the backbone of our communities, many will be caring for their grandchildren.

“It's not right to say everyone over 70 is vulnerable.”

She was backing a similar call from former MP Ann Clwyd.

When Dean Bridle and his family found the “perfect” property in February, they imagined they would be living in their new home in Baglan, Port Talbot by now.

But they are among 400,000 property transactions have stalled in the UK due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to website Zoopla.

“It would be a disaster if we lost this property,” said Dean, 34.

“We thought we might be quite lucky and it wouldn't affect it too much, or the lockdown wouldn't last this long.

“After a lot of searching, the biggest problem is that we could not find another property like that. It ticks every box and more.

“We quickly realised during lockdown how cramped [our current] house is when we’re all here and you're trying to work from home and the kids are trying to get schooled from home.”

The government has urged people not to move house until after the lockdown to try to limit the spread of coronavirus across the UK.

Research suggests the market has seen a 60% drop in demand since early March - and as much as 80% in Cardiff.

Estate agents have also been affected and Julia Evans, branch manager at Clee Tompkinson Francis in Port Talbot, is among those to have been furloughed.

However, she is optimistic of a post-pandemic boom: “People who have sat in their houses and possibly thought about moving will definitely want to move after this.

“We're keeping our fingers crossed that it will be more positive.”

A former MP has urged Welsh ministers not to impose a"blanket ban" on the over 70s being involved in the easing of the coronavirus lockdown.

Ann Clwyd represented Cynon Valley for 35 years, before retiring in December.

She said self-isolation is "difficult and lonely" and any easing of restrictions on movement should not exclude the over-70s.

Those people are classed as vulnerable and have been advised to be "particularly stringent" in following social distancing measures – regardless of their medical condition.

"People will be careful, but to put a ban on them doing this or that I think would be a mistake.

"I had pneumonia last year, I was in intensive care and I know I'm one of the at-risk people.

"But there are other people who haven't had respiratory problems or heart problems and are perfectly healthy.

"I know it's difficult to distinguish and I think you've got to leave a lot to people's common sense.”

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Today, the Welsh Assembly is undergoing a bit of a rebrand.

More than 20 years after its foundation, its name has changed and so has the title by which its 60 elected representatives are known.

The National Assembly for Wales will be known as Senedd Cymru - Welsh Parliament, while politicians will be called Members of the Senedd.

The revamp has been three years in the making and not without debate or controversy.

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Welcome to Wednesday’s live page, bringing you all the latest on the coronavirus in Wales.

Here’s a recap of the main virus stories from yesterday:

• The number of people who have died with confirmed coronavirus has gone past 1,000, Public Health Wales said
• On Tuesday, a further 26 deaths with were announced, external, taking the total to 1,023
• Analysing sewage could help scientists predict a second peak of Covid-19 up to two weeks before people become symptomatic, scientists from Bangor University have said
• The number of people being shielded in Wales has risen to 121,000 after an extra 21,000 people were added to the list