National Sports

TORONTO — Canada's Olympic team will compete in Tokyo on the heels of a year like no other, a year that saw us cheer for front-line workers like we do rock stars and sports heroes.

Canadian rider Michael Woods will lead the Israel Start-Up Nation team at the Tour de France.

When the global track and field schedule shut down due to COVID-19, Justyn Knight went a year without a race.

HALLE, Germany — Canada's Vasek Pospisil is out of the Noventi Open after losing his first-round match on Monday. Playing his first match since March, the 66th-ranked Pospisil lost 7-6 (4), 7-6 (6) to world No. 75 Marcus Giron of the U.S.

FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Chris Johnston put an exclamation mark on a record-setting weekend for Canada's three competitors at the US$1-million Bassmaster Classic. Johnston, of Peterborough, Ont.

GREER, S.C. — Canadian golfer Stuart Macdonald tied for fifth on Sunday at the Korn Ferry Tour's BMW Charity Pro-Am. It marked the third top-10 finish in a row for the Vancouver native, who tied for third and tied for 10th at his past two events.

Canadian golfer Maude-Aimee Leblanc posted her third second-place finish of the season at the Symetra Tour's Island Resort Championship on Sunday in Harris, Mich. Leblanc, from Sherbrooke, Que.

LAS VEGAS — From the Manitoba prairie to the Mojave Desert, from largely empty arenas to a capacity crowd: not a lot about Monday's Stanley Cup semifinal opener in Las Vegas will be familiar to the Montreal Canadiens.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A day after trouncing the U.S.

COPENHAGEN — Denmark's team doctor said Sunday that Christian Eriksen's heart stopped and that “he was gone” before being resuscitated with a defibrillator at the European Championship.