Weekend round-up

• It can’t have been asking too much of Sky Sports to show the penalty shoot-out from the women’s FA Cup final at Ashton Gate yesterday instead of a couple of minutes’ extra coverage of the League One play-off final, surely. The channel cut to Wembley with Birmingham and Chelsea preparing to take spotkicks, which effectively undermined the whole of the rest of the broadcast. Money talks, I guess, but the women’s game is not going to gain support if even a shootout in the final is not deemed worthy of any more than red button coverage.
• Good luck to Wales’s men in their friendly against Mexico at the MetLife Stadium in New York tonight. UPDATE: final score: Mexico 2-0 Wales
• Congratulations to Team GB’s Geraint Thomas and Tom James, who produced promising performances this weekend. Cyclist Thomas finished second in the individual time-trial as the Giro d’Italia, a result he said he was “happy” with in the build-up to the Olympic Games. Meanwhile James, one of the British men’s four rowing, helped his team smash the world record in the World Cup regatta at Lucerne. The event is one of Britain’s strongest events, with Team GB picking up Olympic golds in Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.

Unfortunately didn’t have enough today but happy with how I’ve finished… Only 8 weeks until the main event, Can’t wait!!! #olympics

— Geraint Thomas (@GeraintThomas86) May 27, 2012

• Meanwhile, Dai Greene (48.96 seconds) was narrowly beaten into second place in the 400m hurdles in Morocco by the American Felix Sanchez (48.93), one of the toughest obstacles to Greene’s hopes of adding Olympic gold to the world, European and Commonwealth equivalents he has already won