WINTER GAMES '94: Lillehammer Compiled from Associated Press Dispatches

Hockey Sloppy puck handling plagued the United States in the 3-3 tie at Gjovik Olympic Cavern Hall, the underground arena carved out of a rock 28 miles south of Lillehammer. Trailing 3-1 early in the third period, the United States battled back but still is winless after two games for the first time since the 1984 Olympics, when it lost both. The Americans are 0-0-2 in Pool B with yesterday's tie and a 4-4 tie against France in their opener Sunday. Having already played the two lowest-seeded teams in the pool, they face tougher competition against Canada (2-0) and Sweden (1-0-1) in their next two games. Goaltender Garth Snow made his Olympic debut, replacing teammate Mike Dunham, who gave up 4 goals in only 14 shots in Sunday's tie. Snow gave up three goals before the Americans rallied with two third-period goals to salvage the tie. The Americans spent much of the game's final minutes on the power play after Peter Stastny hit Craig Johnson in the face with his stick. Stastny was penalized seven minutes for highsticking and roughing with nine minutes remaining in the game. The Americans needed the man advantage to close the gap to 3-2 at 14:23 of the third. Mark Beaufait's pass found Peter Ciavaglia in front of the goal and the puck ricocheted off his skate into the net. John Lilley tied the game with a slapshot from the far side of the left circle that just found the net's upper reaches with five minutes to go. Finland's seventh-ranked hockey team shocked a young and inexperienced Russia 5-0 Monday in the worst Olympic loss and first Olympic shutout suffered by the squad formerly known as the Soviet Union and Unified Team. · Figure Skating HAMAR, Norway -- Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov of Russia won the gold last night in pairs figure skating, regaining the crown that they captured in 1988. Natalia Mishkutienok and Artur Dmitriev of Russia, the 1992 gold medalists, won the silver. Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler of Canada won the bronze, as they did at the 1992 Olympics. The top Americans, Jenni Meno, Westlake, Ohio, and Todd Sand of Thousand Oaks, Calif., finished fifth. · Alpine Skiing Diann Roffe-Steinrotter made it 2-for-2 in Alpine skiing for the United States, winning the women's super-G in 1 minute, 22.15 seconds. Russian Svetlana Gladisheva was second with 1:22.44, .01 ahead of Italian Isolde Kostner. Shannon Nobis of Park City, Utah was 10th in 1:23.02 and Hilary Lindh, Juneau, Alaska, was 13th in 1:23.38. Megan Gerety of Anchorage, Alaska, missed a gate and did not finish. · Cross-country skiing Lyubov Egorova of Russia won the women's 5-kilometer classical-style cross-country race by 19.5 seconds over Manuela di Centa of Italy. Egorova, who won three gold medals and one silver in 1992, clocked 14:08.8. Third went to Finland's 38-year-old Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, in her record-tying sixth Olympics, in 14:36.0. Nina Kemppel of Anchorage, Alaska, was 28th (15:44.8), Leslie Thompson of Stowe, Vt., 40th (16:08.0) and Ingrid Butts of Park City, Utah, 53rd (16:33.6) · Luge Cammy Myler of Lake Placid N.Y., brushed the wall in her second run and was 11th at 1 minute, 38.964 seconds. Gerda Weissensteiner of Italy led at 1:37.630. Erin Warren, of Somerville, Mass., crashed in the first run. She flipped upside down and slid feet-first down the run with her sled draped across her shoulders. Bethany Calcaterra-McMahon of Waterford, Conn., was 13th (1:39.275. · Freestyle skiing Liz McIntyre of Winter Park, Colo., was the surprise leader in the elimination rounds of the women's moguls. Defending champion Donna Weinbrecht of West Milford, N.J., was sixth after a stumble. Ann Battelle of Steamboat Springs, Colo., was the third American qualifier. In men's qualifying, Jean-Luc Brassard of Canada was first. Troy Benson of Englewood, Colo., qualified 13th and Sean Smith of Park City, Utah, was 16th. Craig Rodman (18th) and Trace Worthington (19th), both from Park City, failed to advance. All qualifiers start from scratch in the finals. · Alpine-women's super-G America's Alpine team scored another gold yesterday. Diann Roffe-Steinrotter won the women's super-giant slalom to bring home the second gold of the Games. The only other U.S. gold so far came from Tommy Moe, who won the men's downhill Sunday. · Today's highlights Medal events: women's singles luge, men's and women's moguls, men's 1,500-meter speedskating. Hockey: Austria faces Russia, Norway vs. Finland, Czech Republic against Germany. · Medals Russia was leading with eight medals -- three gold, four silver and a bronze. Norway followed with five, two gold and three silver. Italy was in third place with four medals, one of them gold, and the United States was fourth with two gold medals. · Harding PORTLAND, Ore. -- Tonya Harding made a final plea to ''keep believing in me'' before leaving her hometown yesterday for Norway, a trip that was anything but certain a week ago. The white stretch limousine carrying the U.S. national champion figure skater drove directly to a terminal at Portland International Airport moments before her flight was scheduled to depart.