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TORONTO — Eugenie Bouchard still feels the pressure ahead of her first match at the Rogers Cup, even if the women's event isn't in her hometown of Montreal this year. Bouchard, from Westmount, Que.

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Canada dropped its tournament opener at the 2017 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup on Monday, falling to Russia 4-3 in a shootout.

LONDON — For a couple of minutes Monday night, Aaron Brown believed perhaps Canada's luck at the world track and field championships was turning.

MANKATO, Minn. — Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor said Monday that he is ready to commit nearly $150 million to Andrew Wiggins with a max-level extension of his rookie contract.

LONDON — When Rose Nathike Lokonyen crouches at the start line of the 800 metres on Thursday, her race will be a victory before the starting gun even sounds.

SOCHI, Russia — Roman Lyubimov scored the winner on the power play as Russia held on for a 3-2 victory over Canada on Monday to wrap-up preliminary round play at the Sochi Hockey Open.

BARCELONA, Spain — Eight months after surviving the plane crash that killed most of his Chapecoense teammates, Alan Ruschel played his first minutes of football on Monday when his Brazilian club met Barcelona in a friendly.

WINNIPEG — Lexy Vincent was excited and proud to watch her parents win a 200-kilometre marathon canoe race last month in Ontario.

CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu is challenging his Vermont counterpart to a drag race. Sununu tweeted to Vermont Gov. Phil Scott on Monday, saying that " rumour on the street is that you race cars.

Not only will Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews and most of the best hockey players in the world not be going to the Olympics, neither will anyone on an NHL contract.