Businessmen who had done well out of the Industrial Revolution could be persuaded to cover the costs of bricks and mortar - and stained glass windows. But it was much harder to get them to underwrite the salaries of the vicar and curate and other running costs.Being in a similar situation, the attitude of the cultural institutions is that, as well as receiving lottery funds, they should also continue to obtain state support at its present levels, even if the Government allows a switch to the American system of tax deductions for private donations. They want it all; no "either/or".I think that this is unrealistic. The best way of persuading the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make a change is to offer a bargain. I would say to Gordon Brown that if the state would funnel its help to the arts by means of an easy-to-use system of tax deductions for individual donors, scrapping the many restrictions that the Inland Revenue currently imposes, then the increased private giving thereby stimulated should in time allow the whole apparatus of the Arts Council, with its grant giving powers and expensive overheads, to be wound up. But his reaction when the Americans pulled a goal back with just six minutes remaining was pure Peter Shilton - he took it as a personal insult.Canada have three top-class keepers, and Roy did not make the team two years ago when they reached the inaugural World Cup final and lost to the United States, but his performances since he arrived here with the NHL brigade last week have established him as one of the Games' outstanding figures.His piece de resistance yesterday came in the first period, when the United States had a 5-3 advantage for two minutes while Joe Sakic and Rob Zamuner sat in the sin bin for, respectively, slashing and holding. The French-Canadian has the same shambolic look and unlikely athleticism.
RON WILSON, coach to the United States ice hockey team, said before these Games that a goaltender could make all the difference in this competition. On the evidence of yesterday's tumultuous clash between the United States and Canada at the Big Hat rink, Wilson was spot on. And that goaltender is Patrick Roy of Canada. The man whom many believe is the best in the business faced 31 shots from the best players the United States could muster from the National Hockey League, and saved 30 of them. Four goals from 25 shots took Canada into the quarter-final knock-out stage, starting tomorrow, in pole position.For the US team, which lost its opening match 3-2 to Sweden, a second defeat was not disastrous - results merely influence the quarter-final draw with all teams qualifying - but in terms of morale, and national pride, the hurt was hard to hide.If you had to think of Roy in terms of British goalkeepers, your first thought would be Neville Southall. Eurosport: 24-hour coverage.TomorrowAlpine skiing: Men's giant slalom first leg 00.30, second leg 04.30.Cross-country skiing: Men's 4x10km relay 01.15Freestyle skiing: Men's and women's aerials final 01.15.Figure skating: Women's short programme 10.00.Ice hockey: Men's quarter-final 05.45 (two matches), 09.45 (two matches).TelevisionBBC2: 07.45-08.45, 12.30-14.40, 19.00-20.30 Eurosport: 24hr coverage.. Men's 1,000m qualifying and final; Women's 3,000m relay qualifying and final 10,000.Ice hockey: Women's bronze medal match 05.00; Final 09.00.Biathlon: Men's 10km sprint 04.00.TelevisionBBC2: 07.45-08.45, 12.00-14.40, 19.00-20.30. Group D: Canada 4 USA 1; Sweden 5 Belarus 2.SPEED SKATINGWomen's 1500m1 Marianne Timmer (Neth) 1min 57.58sec(world record)2 Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (Ger) 1:58.663 Chris Witty (US) 1:58.974 E Hunyady (Aut) 1:59.19; 5 A Friesinger (Ger) 1:59.20; 6 A Thomas (Neth) 1:59.29; 7 C Pechstein (Ger) 1:59.46; 8 J Rodriguez (US) 2:00.97; 9 S Bazhanova (Rus) 2:01.54; 10 N Polozkova (Rus) 2:01.56.ICE DANCE Final standings.1 Pasha Grishuk/Evgeny Platov (Rus) 2.0pts2 Angelika Krylova/Oleg Ovsyannikov (Rus) 4.03 Marina Anissina/Gwendal Peizerat (Fr) 7.04 S-L Bourne/V Kraatz (Can) 7.2; 5 I Lobacheva/I Averbukh (Rus) 9.8; 6 B Fusar-Poli/M Margaglio (It) 12.0; 7 E Punsalan/J Swallow (US) 14.0; 8 M Drobiazko/P Vanagas (Lith) 16.2; 9 I Romanova/I Yaroshenko (Ukr) 18.4; 10 K Winkler/R Lohse (Ger) 19.8.TIMETABLETodayAlpine skiing: Women's combined slalom, first leg 00.30, second leg 04.00.Ski jumping: 120m team event 00.30.Speed skating: Men's 10,000m 06.00.
British: 20 K Harbut.Women's aerials elimination (first 12 qualify for final): 1 N Xu (Ch) 182.01pts; 2 A Tsuper (Ukr) 178.46; 3 V Brenner (Can) 174.86; 4 N Stone (US) 174.00; 5 H Lid (Nor) 168.79; 6 X Ji (Ch) 167.42; 7 C Brand (Swit) 165.07; 8 D Guo (Ch) 163.95; 9 T Kozachenko (Ukr) 162.09; 10 M Rohrbach (Swit) 161.76; 11 Y Kliukova (Ukr) 161.59; 12 O Yunchik (Ukr) 156.95.ICE HOCKEYMen's final phase: Group C: Finland 8 Kazakhstan 2; Czech Republic 1 Russia 2. British: 31 G Bell 1:39.80; 33 A Freshwater 1:39.89.Women's downhill1 Katja Seizinger (Ger) 1min 28.89sec2 Pernilla Wiberg (Swe) 1:29.183 Florence Masnada (Fr) 1:29.374 M Suchet (Fr) 1:29.48; 5 S Gladishiva (Rus) 1:29.50; 6 P Street (US) 1:29.54; 7 R Cavagnoud (Fr) 1:29.72; 8 A Meissnitzer (Aut) 1:29.84; 9= K Gutensohn (Ger), H Gerg (Ger) 1:29.96.Women's combined downhill (slalom today): 1 K Seizinger (Ger) 1min 28.52sec; 2 P Wiberg (Swe) 1:28.86; 3 R Gotschl (Aut) 1:29.34; 4 M Ertl (Ger) 1:29.76; 5 B Obermoser (Aut) 1:29.82; 6 F Masnada (Fr) 1:29.87; 7 H Gerg (Ger) 1:29.92; 8= S Schuster (Aut), M Dorfmeister (Aut) 1:30.10; 10 B Perez (It) 1:30.54.CROSS-COUNTRY SKIINGWomen's 4x5km relay1 Russia 55mins 13.5secs(O Danilova, N Gavryliouk, L Lazutina, E Vaelbe)2 Norway 55.38.0(B Martinsen, M Mikkelsplass, A Moen-Guidon, E Nilsen)3 Italy 56.53.3;(S Belmondo, M Di Centa, K Moroder, G Paruzzi)4 Switzerland 56:55.2; 5 Germany 56:55.4; 6 Czech Republic 56:58.7; 7 Finland 57:34.3; 8 Sweden 57:53.7; 9 Ukraine 57:54.8; 10 Japan 58:22.8.FREESTYLE SKIINGMen's aerials elimination (first 12 qualify for final): 1 D Dashchinsky (Bela) 249.04pts; 2 B Swartley (US) 247.08; 3 A Mikhailov (Rus) 246.21; 4 E Bergoust (US) 232.61; 5 A Capicik (Can) 227.39; 6 S Kravchuk (Ukr) 226.65; 7 J Bean (Can) 224.86; 8 N Fontaine (Can) 219.60; 9 A Grishin (Blr) 217.84; 10 C Rijavec (Aut) 212.51; 11 A Valenta (Cz Rep) 205.50; 12 S Foucras (Fra) 200.27. If that was so, she drew two lucky tickets.Winter Olympics results and timetableALPINE SKIINGMen's super-G1 Hermann Maier (Aut) 1min 34.82sec2= Didier Cuche (Swit) 1:35.43Hans Knaus (Aut) 1:35.434 A Fattori (It) 1:35.61; 5 K Aamodt (Nor) 1:35.67; 6 P Jaerbyn (Swe) 1:35.72; 7 D Rahlves (US) 1:35.96; 8 T Moe (US) 1:35.97; 9 L Kjus (Nor) 1:36.25; 10 F Nyberg (Swe) 1:36.31. "I really like these conditions." Not bad going for someone who said before the Games that the state of the alpine slopes meant that every event would be "a lottery". Both were won by Germany's Katja Seizinger, who became the first woman to retain an Olympic alpine skiing title."It was a really good day for me," Seizinger said. The only way I could have taken that turn was in a tank."Seizing their chance to get up to date with the alpine skiing programme, the organisers made the most of the good weather by running the women's downhill and the downhill section of the women's combined, which will conclude today. "It wasn't a perfect race, and I wasn't in perfect form," he said.
