Winter Games '94/Lillehammer

Hockey It was a disappointing opening night for America's Olympic hockey team. It went 0-for-3 on disputed goals, 0-for-7 on the power play, handed the French three late goals, and needed their generosity to salvage yesterday's 4-4 tie. There was a positive side for the Americans only because French goalie Petri Ylonen, who otherwise played a splendid game, misplayed long shots by Peter Laviolette and Brian Rolston in the final 8:37. First, Laviolette's floater from outside the zone eluded the goalie. And with 6:02 to play, Rolston's soft shot from the left corner got under Ylonen's stick and between his pads. · Alpine skiing Tommy Moe of Palmer, Alaska, won the downhill by .04 seconds over Norway's Kjetil Andre Aamodt. Moe's time was 1 minute, 45.75 seconds. Third went to Ed Podivinsky of Canada in 1:45.87. Moe joined Bill Johnson, the 1984 winner, as the only American men's downhill gold medalists. · Cross-country skiing Manuela Di Centa of Italy won her first major title in the women's 15-kilometer freestyle race, with a time of 39 minutes, 44.5 seconds. Lyubov Egorova of Russia, who won three gold and two silver medals at the 1992 Albertville Games, was second in 41:03.0. · Speedskating Norway's Johann Olav Koss set a world record of 6 minutes, 34.96 seconds in winning the men's 5,000 meters, shaving .57 off the mark he set on the same Viking Ship Hall track 10 weeks ago. · Luge Duncan Kennedy has a chance to take America's first Olympic luge medal after two runs of the men's singles, standing fourth behind defending champion Georg Hackl of Germany. The last two runs are today. · Figure skating Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov of Russia won the technical program worth one-third of the total mark in the pairs event. The 1988 gold medalists edged the 1992 Olympic winners, Natalia Mishkutienok and Artur Dmitriev.