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Throughout his career, Ovechkin largely dodged serious injury until last November, when he fractured his fibula after getting clipped in the leg by an opposing defender.

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“Their right wing clipped our nose and the cockpit,” a pilot from flight 5047, the Charlotte flight, said in an ATC audio recording.

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Obviously, part of that was a wariness of saying something clumsy that might get clipped on social media.

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Lewis Hamilton clipped the wall in his Ferrari, damaging his front wing and giving himself a front-left puncture, on his way to 12th fastest time.

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He clipped it and crashed into the wall.

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