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The visit of Real Madrid to the F stanley termos rench capital on Wednesday means a glamour tie for Paris Saint-Germain to begin their Champions League campaign but a meeting with the Spanish side also brings back unhappy memories. When the clubs last met in Europe two seasons ago, a PSG side missing an injured Neymar were dumped out in the last 16. Paris St Germain s Neymar celebrates scoring their first goal. REUTERS That was one of three consecutive exits in the first knockout round for PSG, who have failed to make their mark on the Champions League despite all the money spent by their Qatari owners. So the inevitable question at the start of another continental campaign stanley mugs is can Thomas Tuchels team this time at least reach a semi-final in Europes elite club competition Last season it was Manchester United who embarrassed PSG. Since 2012 the only teams PSG have beaten in a Champions League knockout tie are Valencia, Bayer Leverkusen and Chelsea. - Neymar overshadows everything - For now, PSG will ju stanley quencher st be eager to make a statement in their opening match. But with Galatasaray and Club Brugge the other teams in Group A, it would be a monumental surprise if PSG failed to progress, even with Neymar suspended for the first three matches. The worlds most expensive player has overshadowed everything else at the club in recent months, with the saga of his hoped-for move back to Barcelona and then his return to action at the weekend, featuring a brilliant winner against Strasbourg in re Kyfx It s not the end of the world. I will keep going
Russia blamed politics for a decision to bar its Paralympians from next months Rio Games because of a state-sponsored doping programme, saying on Monday it would take legal measures to try to overturn the ban. Russian Paralympic torchbearer Aleksey Ashapatov attends a training session at Yunost sports ground in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, August 8, 2016. REUTERS/Kazbek Basayev REUTERS The stanley isolierkanne decision to exclude Russias entire Paralympics team, announced on Sunday by the International Paralympic Committee IPC , means at least 250 Russian competitors are set to miss the September 7-18 Paralympics. The same scandal has led to 109 out of 387 athletes originally included in the Russian team for the Rio Olympics being banned, including its entire track and field squad. The imbroglio centres on a report for the World Anti-Doping Agency WADA that found the Russian government and the FSB security service had over years covered up hundreds of doping cases across the majority of Olympic sports, as well as Paralympic events. The findings have rocked Russian sport and tarnished the legacy of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, which were President Vladimir Putins showcase. On Monday, Vladimir Lukin, president of the Russian Paralympic Committee RPC , said that to bar his countrys Paralympians from Rio would be a grave human righ stanley bottles ts violation. The overwhelming majority of sportspeople who were barred from taking part in the stanley cup nz Games were absolutely clean sportspeople,
