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In the Stanley Cup Final, Vegas is keeping its chin up after a gut-punch in Game 2. The Golden Knights lost the Hurricanes' rally in the third period, and a failed coach's challenge on a disallowed goal swung the momentum hard. Vegas says the confidence is intact, but that call still stings.
Shifting to the track, Keely Hodgkinson is building something special heading into this summer. The Paris gold medallist ran a personal best of fifty-one point one four seconds on her four hundred metre Diamond League debut in Rome, finishing seventh in a race won by Henriette Jaeger. It's all groundwork for her assault on Jarmila Kratochvilova's near forty-three-year-old eight hundred metre world record.
And at Roland Garros, Friday's men's semi-finals are setting up as a genuine test of nerve. Alexander Zverev steps into his eleventh Grand Slam semi-final, a man who knows the stage. Jakub Mensik and Flavio Cobolli are both first-timers at this level, and the French Open clay has a way of separating those who want it from those who can handle it.
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