European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes february 16,1994 Page 36for 2 in Alpin Roffe Stein Rotter captures super a for 2nd . Gold Diann Roffe Stein Rotter racing As first starter also finished first in super giant slalom. Winter olympic schedule wednesday Central european time luge a women a singles third and fourth runs 10 . Freestyle skiing a men s and women a moguls finals 12 30 . Speed skating a menus 1,500 meters finals 2 . Hockey a Austria is Russia 3 . Czechoslovakia is. Germany 5 30 . Norway is. Finland 8 .thursday Cross country skiing a menus 10-Kilometer classical finals 10 30 . Women a 10-Kilometer freestyle Pursuit finals 12 30 . Alpine skiing a menus super a finals 11 . Speed skating a women s 3,000 me ters finals 2 . Hockey a Slovakia is. Italy 3 . France is. Sweden 5 30 . Canada is. United states 8 . Figure skating a menus technical program 7 .Afn television lbs this morning at Winter games 1 . Wednesday and thursday. Xxvii Winter games three hour summary of previous Days action2 , thursday and Friday. An radio hockey a Canada is. United states 7 45 . By Mike Clark ring Ebu Norway a on the olympic mountains its America 2, rest of the world 0. A Diann Roffe Stein Rotter took the Gold in the women a super a tuesday just two Days after Tommy Moe gave America Only its second downhill Victory Ever in the  the Veteran Roffe Stein Rotter it reversed nearly a decade of misfortune. Quot i think this is the Best Day of my career a Roffe Stein Rotter said. Quot its just amazing. I surprised myself. I Haven to skied very Well this  indeed she Hasni to skied very Well in Many years. The 26-year-old from Potsdam n.y., won the giant slalom at the world championships in 1985 world slalom Placid week. She nothing and cup at the had the giant Lake next won since. Though she did get Lillehammer the Silver medal in the giant slalom in the 1992 games. Her time tuesday was 1 minute 22.15 seconds the first woman out of the Gate. The Silver medal went to Svetlana Gladi Schiva of Russia skiing 35th, in 1 22.44, and Isolde Kostner of Italy was third in 1 22.45 Over the twisting 2,035-meter Kvit Fjell course. Kostner said the death of austrian Star Ulrike Maier in a downhill at Garmisch Germany Jan. 29 was on her mind As she skied. A but not in the sense of being scared a she said. A i tried to make it a positive thing. In a sure the other skiers were thinking about it  Moe followed sunday s Success with a third place finish in the downhill portion of the menus combined on monday setting himself up for a possible second medal when the combined slalom is staged next week. I Roffe Stein Rotter an ill tempered outcast of the . Team who admits her Short fuse has alienated a lot of other skiers glided through about the first 20 seconds of the course. A thais where the real test begins with one High Speed turn following another. She banged into three consecutive Gates her arms spread wide to keep her balance. A i was very nervous during the race a she said. A i did no to think i was going very  a ,. She wobbled slightly Over a bump but she was in control her skis smoothly hugging the Snow few wasted movements. Obviously when she crossed the finish line it was impossible to predict what the other skiers could do. Kostner skied next and her time was just .30 Back. Perhaps Roffe Stcin Rotter a time would not hold up much longer. But then came Anita Wachter of Austria the 1993 world cup Champion and defending olympic super a Champion Deborah Compagnoni. Wachter finished in 1 23.01, Compagnoni in 1 23.54, and it began to look Good for Roffe Stein Rotter. The austrian women have not skied since Maier death taking off the final weekend of the world cup season before the olympics. Wachter a ninth place finish was their highest. Katja Seizinger the great Down Hiller from Germany caught an Edge got backward and Slid past a Gate. She did no to finish. Bibiana Perez a hot skier from Italy skied Between the two poles of one Gate and she was disqualified too. Alenka Kovzan of Slovenia was actually .42 seconds ahead of Roffe Stein Rotter at the Midway timing Point but she missed a Gate and had to quit. She  control her Speed through the serpentine course. At that Point Roffe Stein Rotter looked every bit a Champion. Some of the Best in the world had taken a crack at her and failed. �?�1 Haven to mellowed but in a not As caustic As i used to be with the other athletes a Roffe Stein Rotter once said. A tin obsessed and intense. I feel a drive not to be shoved into the  she made sure of that tuesday when she shoved herself squarely into the foreground again. . Rallies again for tie gjovik Norway apr the . Hockey team got goals a a minutes apart late in the third period tuesday night rallying after playing poorly most of the game to Salvage a 3-3 tie with Slovakia. It was the second tie in two olympic games for the americans who needed two late goals to come Back for a 4-4 draw with France in their opener. For the first time since 1984, the United slates has failed to win at least one of its first two games. In �?T84, the americans opened with losses to Canada and Czechoslovakia and finished seventh. Appearing in its first olympics since gaining its National Independence Slovakia also has two ties. It opened by playing Gold medal favorite Sweden even Slovakia out shot the americans 33-18 and controlled play most of the  hockey Story on Page 33 Garth Snow starting in the . Go after Mike Dunham allowed four got on 14 shots against France kept to game close As his teammates cont Mua gave away the puck in . Ice. A Power play goal by Robert Svehla a the slovaks a 3-1 Lead at 6 58 of the Thi period. But a rash of penalties had slovak shorthanded for most of the rest of to game and the . Team took advantage. Peter Ciavaglia redirected Mark Bea fait s goal Mouth feed past goalie Edua Hartmann to make it 3-2 at 14 23. The John Lilley beat Hartmann with a slap she Jeff Lazaro scored the american other goal. Stastny and Lubomir Kiln also scored for Slovakia