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"The wins didn’t teach me who I was. The crashes did."

— Lindsey Vonn shared her insight for the graduating Class of 2026 at USC. You can watch the full speech here 💜

Women's hockey is booming 📈

As the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) heads into the Walter Cup finals and wraps up its third season, things are looking 🔥🔥

According to the PWHL:

💥 1,116,497 fans attended games during the regular season — surpassing 1 million for the first time

💥 Average attendance rose 28% from last year and is up 71% from the inaugural season

💥 The Takeover Tour — which brought 16 games to neutral city locations — also set U.S. attendance records

💥 Online merch sales increased 50% and Youtube viewership increased 77%

The two new expansion teams (Seattle & Vancouver) also saw the highest average attendance and the highest first-year merchandise sales of any team to date. And the league has now announced even *more* expansion teams for the 2026-27 season:

🏒 Detroit, Michigan

🏒 Las Vegas, Nevada
🏒 San Jose, California
🏒 Hamilton, Ontario

Tell me more about the playoff finals

Now it's time to name a season winner: Montreal Victoire v. Ottawa Charge

With the two-time defending champs, Minnesota Frost, eliminated during the semis with a late goal by Montreal's legendary clutch player Marie-Philip Poulin, we'll have a NEW Walter Cup champ for the first time.

Best of five — meaning the first team to win three games wins the title. Montreal was up 2-0 games, but last night Ottawa held them off. We now go to Game 4 tomorrow night! 

📺 WATCH: Game 4 - Wednesday, May 20 @ 7 p.m. ET on ION in the U.S. & TSN in Canada & on Youtube outside of Canada

**Game 5 on Saturday @ 12:30 p.m. ET if it comes to it...

(Photo: PWHL)

What's the heck is going on with Canada Team Pursuit? 🚲

In early May, Cycling Canada notified athletes it would not put forward a women's team pursuit squad at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships later this year *and* it would not pursue qualification for the L.A. Olympics in the women's team pursuit. However, the men's team pursuit squad remains. 

Why? 

Cycling Canada says it was a performance-based decision: "Results during the current Olympic cycle were not trending towards medal-winning potential. In addition, performances during competition and training did not indicate that these gaps were likely to be closed in time for the LA2028 Games."

But people pointed out that the women have won all of Canada's Olympic medals in track cycling. This includes a team pursuit bronze in 2016. The Canada men's team pursuit is currently ranked lower than the women's.

Yes, the women's team pursuit's performance has slipped in more recent years — BUT (!) athletes have argued they weren't given support: no adequate time to train together, no performance plan or aerodynamic testing, and no clear objectives to hit for team funding.

The five athletes on the squad have filed an appeal and written an open letter to Cycling Canada. Two Cycling Canada board members have resigned. And other athletes have also opened up about the instability and lack of communication over the years from the governing body.

Alison Jackson — Paris-Roubaix winner, one of the most well-known Canadian cyclists, and the national team athlete representative on the Cycling Canada board — wrote in a comment:

"What makes the performances of Cycling Canada great is the passion and commitment and hard work and talent of the athletes! We need the organization to match the energy and investment of their athletes."

The highlight reel

• 🏉 England won its 8th Six Nations title to record crowds.
  
  
• Elina Svitolina beat Coco Gauff for her third Italian Open win. 🎾
  
  
• Ronda Rousey v. Gina Carano's 👊 much-hyped Netflix MMA match lasted just 17 seconds when Rousey took down the former star.
  
  
• The last time a woman threw over 21 meters in the shot put was back in 2012. But this weekend, world champ Jessica Schilder PB'd to become the first woman to throw that far in 14 years.
  
  
• 🏃‍♀️ Tove Alexandersson won the famous Zegama trail race — now part of the Golden Trail World Series.
  
  
• 🏃‍♀️ In a close race, Katarzyna Dombrowska won the 100km Ultra-Trail Australia over Beth McKenzie by less than five minutes. And Yao Miao beat Ruth Croft in the 50km by just 90 seconds.
  
  
• A young Tilda Mansson 🇸🇪 outsprinted world champ Beth Potter for not just her first World Triathlon Championship Series win — but also her first podium ever.
  
  
• 🚲 Ginia Caluori won the four-stage Tour de Feminin.
  
  
• ⚽ Lexington SC won the Gainbridge Super League regular season title (the other top-level pro league in the U.S. in addition to the NWSL).
  
  
• Texas A&M beat Auburn for the NCAA women's tennis title. 🎾
  
  
• 🥎 In the first wild round of the NCAA softball tournament, Texas Tech pulled off a wild upset against the University of Mississippi — down 8-0 with one out left.  And UCLA's Megan Grant became the first player to hit 40 home runs in a single season.
  
  
• 🏎️ Katherine Legge is attempting to become the first woman to race the Indy 500 and NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 on the same day. 
  
  
• 🏔️ Nepali mountaineer Lhakpa Sherpa was the first woman to summit and descend Mount Everest back in 2000 and has now climbed it for a record 11th time.
  
  
• ⚽ FIFA has given a team of Afghani refugees permission to compete as the women's national team — bypassing the Taliban, who banned the team in 2021.
  
  
• San Diego State agreed to pay $300,000 to former student-athletes for violations of Title IX, after depriving female athletes of equal scholarship money compared to male athletes.
  
  
• 👑 Athlos, the all-women's track meet, announced it'll return to New York Oct. 2.
  

Your Feisty recommendations

🎧 What to listen to: "Avoid burnout and say goodbye to toxic productivity with Israa Nasir, MHC-LP"

📚 What to read: "Saudi women surfers are shaping a new wave on the Red Sea coast"

📺 What to watch: Raise the Bar — a love letter to the legendary Western States race, following four athletes, premieres on May 24

😂 What made us laugh: Local man has worldview shattered when he realizes men can crash, too!

The Feist is written by Kelly O'Mara. Ads by Ella Hnatyshyn

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