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...Finland. Team USA and Switzerland are both regarded as dark horses, while Russia--a longtime nemesis that hadn't been expected to be a threat--has been playing in Torino as if it has nothing to lose. The Russian team is young, assembled by former NHL star Pavel Bure and led by rising players, including NHL rookie-of-the-year candidate Alexander Ovechkin. That can't be reassuring for the Canadians. In Olympic history, Canada's record against Russia (and the former Soviet Union) is one win and six losses. The Russians don't seem intimidated. "I hear the same...
Four years ago, when NHL players entered the Olympics for the first time, many Russian players refused to play for the motherland. This year Florida Panthers player Pavel Bure, with the support of other Russian NHL players, lobbied for Fetisov to coach in a closed meeting with Putin. Soon after, Russian hockey execs buckled. So there's nothing they would like to see more than Fetisov coming home without a medal. "I don't want to get into details, but everything I try to do, they try to sabotage," he says. "I was fighting for freedom and democracy...
ENGAGED. ANNA KOURNIKOVA, 18, Russian tennis starlet, to Russian hockey pro PAVEL BURE, 28; in Miami. Kournikova, who won her first Grand Slam title (in doubles) in last year's Australian Open, lives in the same Miami Beach apartment building as the Florida Panther All-Star...