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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 12 AUGUST 2015 Sport 23 Answers to the MaltaToday crossword will be published next Wednesday WEATHER: Partly to rather cloudy with showers VISIBILITY: Good locally moderate in showers WIND: West Northwest force 5 becoming Northwest and veering Northeast force 4 overnight SEA: Rough SWELL: Negligible becoming low West Northwest SEA TEMP: 28°C A B C D E F G H 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 White to play and mate in four moves A B C D E F G H 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Last week's solution Sudoku rules are extremely easy: Fill all empty squares so that the numbers 1 to 9 appear once in each row, column and 9x9 box. THUNDERY SHOWERS 29 º C / 23 º C UV INDEX: 8 Today's Weather Chess Sudoku Pursuits Across 1. Sparkler (7) 4. Wreck (5-2) 8. One of the 12 apostles (11) 12. Large cat (4) 13. Lash (4) 14. Picture border (5) 15. Snuggle (6) 17. Will (5) 22. Exclamation of mild dismay (4) 23. Gaze fixedly (5) 24. Unspecified in number (4) 25. Strange and mysterious (5) 28. Jewish girl (6) 30. Person who is in love (5) 32. Ground (4) 34. Matures (4) 35. Christ (4,2,5) 38. Young tree (7) 39. Like a spider (7) Down 1. Each day (5) 2. Grumble (4) 3. Open mesh fabric (3) 5. Sound of a cow (3) 6. Simmer (4) 7. Airscrew (9) 8. Part of skeleton (4) 9. Rent (4) 10. Leg or arm (4) 11. Command to stop a horse (4) 14. Sudden burst of light (5) 16. Japanese dish (5) 18. Speed (5) 19. Helpless (9) 20. Male child (3) 21. Abnormal body temperature (5) 26. Enclosure for skating arena (4) 27. Game played on horseback (4) 28. Sudden pull (4) 29. Droops (4) 31. Short literary composition (5) 33. Clock face (4) 34. Old (4) 36. Firearm (3) 37. Mischievous child (3) Bxf7+ Kxf7 Qf5+ Ke8 Qe6+ Kd8 Qe7+ Kc8 Qe8# ATHLETICS IAAF bans 28 after 2005, 2007 world champs retests TURNING to new technology to uncover previously undetected substances, the IAAF has initiated disciplinary action against 28 ath- letes after retested samples from the 2005 and 2007 World Cham- pionships found 32 adverse doping findings. World athletics' governing body said on Tuesday it could not name the 28 yet, "due to the legal proc- ess". "A large majority of the 28 are re- tired, some are athletes who have already been sanctioned, and only very few remain active in sport," the body said. "The IAAF is provi- sionally suspending them and can confirm that none of the athletes concerned will be competing in Beijing." If violations are confirmed the IAAF said it would correct the record books for the 2005 and 2007 world championships and re-allo- cate medals as necessary. The 2005 event was staged in Helsinki, with Osaka, Japan, host- ing two years later. The 2015 World Championships start in the Chi- nese capital on Aug. 22. The IAAF said its retesting had begun in April, "well before the most recent allegations made against the IAAF by the ARD and The Sunday Times". The re-testing took advantage of new testing procedures and the 10-year period now offered under IAAF rules and the World Anti- Doping Code. "The latest scientific break- throughs in anti-doping technology and analysis have been employed in the re-analysis of these samples to allow us to find previously unde- tectable substances," Martial Sau- gy, director of the Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses in Lausanne, said in a statement. Beginning in 2005, athletes' sam- ples from previous championships have been stored at the laboratory and they were used in the re-anal- ysis. "The findings reconfirm, yet again, the commitment of the IAAF to target and uncover all cheating in the sport, no matter how long it takes," said the IAAF, which was heavily criticised for its anti-doping efforts earlier this month by German broadcaster ARD and Britain's Sunday Times newspaper. The testing was the second of samples from the 2005 Helsinki championships. The first, in 2012, revealed six adverse findings and to date nine athletes have been sanctioned after re-tests of sam- ples from various world champion- ships. "The IAAF does not shy away from the fact that some athletes continue to cheat and defraud their fellow competitors," the federation said in its statement. "But we will do everything in our power, and use every tool available to protect those clean athletes who form the large majority of our sport."

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