Medals · Cross-country relay Italy won the 40-kilometer cross-country relay in 1 hour, 41 minutes and 15 seconds, edging Norway by 0.4 seconds and denying Bjorn Dahlie his sixth Olympic gold medal. Dahlie skied the anchor leg and lost a heated sprint for first place to Silvio Fauner. Finland won the bronze. · Ski jump Germany won the gold medal in the men's 120-meter team ski jump with 970.1 points led by Jens Weissflog, who won the individual gold on the large hill Saturday and at the 1984 Sarajevo Games. Japan took the silver medal with 956.9 points and Austria won the bronze with 918.9. · Speedskating Defending champion Kim Ki-Hoon of South Korea won the gold medal in the 1,000-meter short-track speedskating race at 1 minutes, 34.57 seconds. Chae Ji-Hoon of South Korea won the silver in 1:34.92 after two competitors were disqualified. The bronze went to Marc Gagnon of Canada. South Korea set an Olympic record of 4 minutes, 26.64 seconds in the women's 3,000-meter short-track speedskating relay. Five-time defending world champion Canada won the silver and the United States, silver medalist in 1992, took the bronze. China's team finished second but was disqualified. · Hockey Playoffs-consolation: France beat Austria 5-4 (shootout). Italy defeated Norway, 6-3. · Today's highlights Medal events: women's 1,000-meter speedskating, men's giant slalom, women's 7.5K biathlon, men's 10K biathlon. Other: Women's figure-skating technical program, with deciding free skate Friday; Nordic combined, 90-meter team ski-jumping with deciding 3X10K cross-country race tomorrow. Hockey: quarterfinal playoffs, US-Finland, Canada-Czech Republic, Germany-Sweden, Slovakia-Russia. · Harding PORTLAND, Ore. -- On the eve of Tonya Harding's Olympic skating performance, her ex-husband was denied permission yesterday to go to Colorado to testify against her at a disciplinary hearing. Circuit Judge Donald Londer refused Jeff Gillooly's request that he be allowed to go to Colorado Springs for the March 9 hearing -- a ruling that angered the prosecutor and surprised the attorney for the U.S. Figure Skating Association. The USFSA had asked that Gillooly appear at the hearing, which will consider whether Harding violated the association's code of ethics by her actions surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan.
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