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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016 23 Sport Answers to the MaltaToday crossword will be published next Wednesday WEATHER: Rather cloudy becoming cloudy with the possibility of isolated showers overnight VISIBILITY: Generally good WIND: Southeast force 4 to 5 locally force 5 to 6 at first, becoming variable force 2 to 3 locally force 3 to 4, and veering Southwesterly overnight SEA: Moderate to rough becoming moderate SWELL: Negligible becoming low Southeast Sea Temp.: 18°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. PARTLY CLOUDY 27 º C / 17 º C UV INDEX: 9 Today's Weather Chess Sudoku Pursuits Across 6. Ramble (6) 7. Letters (4) 8. Of moderate temperature (4) 9. Nothing (6) 10. Evade work (5) 12. Blackboard crayon (5) 15. Line on a weather map (6) 17. Cushions (4) 18. Tartan skirt (4) 19. Depression between hills (6) Down 1. Join (6) 2. Move rapidly (4) 3. Long flat piece of timber (5) 4. Surprise attack (6) 5. Aquatic vertebrate (4) 11. Automatons (6) 13. One who lives in rented rooms (6) 14. Courageous (5) 16. Stated (4) 17. Friends (4) Nd6 Ka8 Rh8 Kb8 Rxe8+ Kc7 Rc8# ATHLETICS Garmin Malta Ocean Lava Malta 133K Triathlon next Sunday THE Garmin Malta Ocean Lava Malta 113k Triathlon and Long Distance National Triathlon Championships, as designated by the Malta Triathlon Federation, will be held on Sunday 15th May at the Bahar ic-Caghaq Coast Road. Race Transition will be located in Bahar ic-Caghaq (near Ice Cream Van, just before Splash and Fun). Race will start at 6:30am and will consist of a 1.9k swim, a 90km cycle and a 21km run. The first athletes are expected to finish the race at approximately 10:30am Trophy & Prize Presentation will take place at 1pm in the said location. A number of professional and foreign athletes who will be trav- elling to Malta purposely for this race, as well as established Mal- tese triathletes will be taking part. For more information please contact Maria Vella-Galea on ma- ria@emvigee.com or on mobile +356 99812345. Whistleblowers at top of packed WADA agenda in Montreal A new policy to encourage and protect whisteblowers will feature at the top of a jam-packed agenda when the World Anti-Doping Agen- cy meets this week in Montreal as drug scandals swirl around world sport. WADA's meetings of its executive committee and foundation board on Wednesday and Thursday have taken on new urgency after whistle- blower Vitaly Stepanov said the former head of Russia's drug testing lab told him that at least four Rus- sian gold medal winners at the 2014 Olympics were using steroids. Stepanov and wife Yuliya, an international runner for Russia once banned for doping, were the whistleblowers who provided key evidence that led to the establish- ment of a WADA independent com- mission that uncovered widespread doping in Russia and led to the country being banned from all ath- letics competition. "We (WADA) are hampered by two things," former WADA chief Dick Pound, who headed up the in- dependent investigation, told Reu- ters. "One is an insufficient budget to do the kind of things that we want to do and are expected to do and we are hampered that our powers of in- vestigation acting alone are limited. "And we have to find a better way of encouraging whistleblowers and protecting them once they do." Stepanov, a former employee with the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) told Reuters on Mon- day that he had over 200 emails exchanges with WADA and nearly aborted his efforts to expose doping in Russian athletics when they were slow to act on the information he provided. Vitaly and Yuliya provided key evidence for a German television documentary called "Top Secret Doping: How Russia Makes Its Winners" that led to the establish- ment of a WADA independent commission. WADA has acknowledged that it must get better at protecting and collecting information from whistleblowers and hopes to ap- prove a new policy on Thursday that will provide safeguards and make it easier for people to bring forward credible information that can be put to their investigative committee. The foundation board will also hear from a group examining an IOC proposal to have the Montreal- based agency set up an independent unit to take over drug testing from federations. The board will also hear from WADA's compliance committee and a report on Kenya, which had faced a possible ban from the Rio Olympics if it did not comply with the WADA code and sign an anti- doping bill into law. WADA will also get a progress re- port on the overhaul of the troubled Russia Anti-Doping Agency. RUSADA has been suspended since November after an investiga- tion found evidence of widespread doping in the country.