WINTER GAMES '94: Lillehammer

Medals · Hockey The U.S. team beat Italy 7-1 to clinch the last playoff spot. Canada's 3-2 win over unbeaten Sweden and Slovakia's 6-2 victory over France completed the pairings for the single-elimination medal round. Consolation play is today. The Americans will face unbeaten Finland tomorrow. · Ice skating Oksana Gritschuk and Evgeni Platov won the gold medal for ice-dancing, leading a one-two Russian sweep. Maia Usova and Alexander Zhulin of Russia, the reigning world champions, finished second, edging out 1984 Olympic champions Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. · Alpine skiing Pernilla Wiberg won the gold medal in the women's Alpine combined -- Sweden's first medal of the Games. Vreni Schneider of Switzerland, a double gold medalist in 1988, was second. Alenka Dovzan of Slovenia won the bronze -- the first Olympic medal ever for her country. · Speedskating Emese Hunyady of Austria won the women's 1,500-meter speedskating race in two minutes, 2.19 seconds. Svetlana Fedotkina of Russia was second in 2:02.69 and Gunda Niemann of Germany, the favorite, was third in 2:03.41. Bonnie Blair of Milwaukee was fourth in 2:03.44, her best time ever for the distance. · Cross-country relay Lyubov Egorova anchored Russia to victory in the women's cross-country 4 x 5-kilometer relay, winning her sixth Olympic gold medal to tie the all-time Winter Games record set by Soviet speedskater Lydia Skoblikova in 1960-64.