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maltatoday WEDNESDAY 9 MAY 2018 Sport 23 FOOTBALL CYCLING Answers to the MaltaToday crossword will be published next Wednesday WEATHER: Partly cloudy. To south of area: cloudy with isolated showers possibly locally thundery and gusty at first. VISIBILITY: Good except in showers WIND: Northwest force 3 to 4 locally force 4 to 5 SEA: Slight becoming moderate SWELL Negligible 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. WINDY 22 º C /15 º C UV INDEX: 8 Today's Weather Chess Sudoku Pursuits Across 1. Teacher (10) 6. Solemn promise (6) 7. Profane expression (4) 10. Sum (5) 11. Automaton (5) 12. Consumed (3) 13. Sheep cry (5) 14. Crawl (5) 16. Skills (4) 18. Country (6) 19. Woman who is a manager (10) Down 1. Something that is put in (5) 2. Confection (9) 3. Control (8) 4. Also (3) 5. Close (4) 8. Lake District town (9) 9. Remains of anything ruined (8) 13. Prejudice (4) 15. Languishes with longing (5) 17. Male child (3) Bd6+ Kd8 Rxb8# (or Rxg8#) Former Guatemalan judge given life ban by FIFA for bribery A former Guatemalan judge was banned from football for life by global soccer body FI- FA yesterday for bribery while he was general secretary of his country's football federation. Hector Trujillo, who was also fined $200,000 (147,673 pounds), had already been sentenced by a United States court to eight months in pris- on last October after previ- ously pleading guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy. He admitted to the court that he took kickbacks from a marketing company in ex- change for his help securing media and marketing rights for World Cup qualifying matches. He said at the time that his conscience failed him and he thought of the pay- ments as "common practice". He was the first person to be sentenced in a US investiga- tion into bribery surrounding FIFA which sparked the big- gest crisis in the global soc- cer body's history after more than 40 people were indicted in 2015. FIFA's ethics committee opened its own investigation after Trujillo was indicted and said he had been found guilty of breaking FIFA rules relating to bribery and cor- ruption. "He has therefore been banned for life from all foot- ball-related activities (admin- istrative, sports or any other) at national and international level," said FIFA in a state- ment. Trujillo, a former judge on the Constitutional Court of Guatemala, was arrested in December 2015 on a Disney cruise ship docked in Port Ca- naveral, Florida. Hector Trujillo BELGIAN Tim Wellens lived up to expectations when he won the fourth stage of the Giro d'Italia, a 202-km treach- erous ride from Catania with a steep finish as Chris Froome struggled yester- day. After three opening days in Israel and a rest day, the Giro finally reached Italian soil, with Wellens tipped as a favourite for the day's stage. The Lotto-Soudal rider was on the right end of a late split and he sustained his effort on an 800-metre climb up an average gradient of almost 10 percent to the finish line. He beat Canada's Michael Woods, who was seconds ahead of Italian Enrico Batag- lin. Four-time Tour de France champion Froome, who is un- der investigation for a failed dope test in last year's Vuelta, struggled in the finale and lost some 20 seconds, according to provisional results. Australian Rohan Dennis re- tained the overall leader's pink jersey with a one-second ad- vantage over defending cham- pion Tom Dumoulin of the Netherlands. Portgual's Jose Goncalves, one of the overall contenders, suffered a couple of mechani- cal problems in the finale and dropped out of the top 10. Wellens claims Giro stage four as Froome loses time