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Germany's Julian Draxler, center, exercises with the national team in Sochi, Russia, on Wednesday, June 28, 2017. Germany will play Mexico in a Confederations Cup semifinal soccer match scheduled for Thursday June 29, 2017 in Sochi. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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Germany's Julian Draxler exercises in Sochi, Russia, on Wednesday, June 28, 2017. Germany will play Mexico in a Confederations Cup semifinal soccer match scheduled for Thursday June 29, 2017 in Sochi. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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Germany's Julian Draxler exercises with the national team in Sochi, Russia, on Wednesday, June 28, 2017. Germany will play Mexico in a Confederations Cup semifinal soccer match scheduled for Thursday June 29, 2017 in Sochi. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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Germany's Julian Draxler, center, exercises with the national team in Sochi, Russia, on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Germany will play Mexico in a Confederations Cup semifinal soccer match scheduled for Thursday, June 29, 2017 in Sochi. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, June 20, 2017 file photo, Mexico players practice during a training session at the Fisht Stadium in Sochi, Russia. The Russian city of Sochi's only professional soccer club says it's withdrawing from the league, in a move which calls World Cup legacy plans into question. FC Sochi says in a website statement that it's "taking a break" to rethink its strategy but plans to return in the 2018-19 season. It didn't mention any deal with Russian football authorities, who would need to approve any return. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)
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FILE - This Wednesday, March 1, 2017 file photo shows an inside view of the Fisht Olympic stadium which will host some 2018 World Cup matches, in Sochi, Russia. The Russian city of Sochi's only professional soccer club says it's withdrawing from the league, in a move which calls World Cup legacy plans into question. FC Sochi says in a website statement that it's "taking a break" to rethink its strategy but plans to return in the 2018-19 season. It didn't mention any deal with Russian football authorities, who would need to approve any return. (AP Phoro/Artur Lebedev, File)
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In this photo taken Saturday, May 27, 2017 people carrying a Cameroon flag, take part in a parade in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia. People in blackface wearing African clothing and carrying bananas marched in a government-backed weekend parade in Sochi, a city that will host one of Cameroon's matches at the Confederations Cup. (AP Photo/Artur Lebedev)
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FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 23 2014 file photo, Russia's gold medal winner Alexander Legkov kisses his medal during the medals ceremony for the men's 50-kilometer cross-country race during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia. Three Russian Olympic medalists have appeal hearings in doping cases at the Court of Arbitration for Sport this month. Sochi Olympic medalists Alexander Legkov is appealing against provisional suspensions by skiing's governing body. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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Flowers, candles and portraits are placed at a pier in honour of the victims of the military plane crash, in Sochi, Russia, in Sochi, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military's Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern Russian city of Sochi. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin)
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In this late Monday, Dec. 26, 2016 frame grab image provided by the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry Press Service, ministry employees lift a fragment of a plane in the Black Sea, outside Sochi, Russia. Rescue workers on Tuesday, Dec. 27, found a flight recorder from the Russian plane that crashed into the Black Sea over the weekend, the defense ministry said. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military's Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from Sochi. (Russian Emergency Situations Ministry Photo via AP)
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In this late Monday, Dec. 26, 2016 photo provided by the Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service, ministry employees lift a fragment of a plane in the Black Sea, outside Sochi, Russia. Rescue workers on Tuesday, Dec. 27, found a flight recorder from the Russian plane that crashed into the Black Sea over the weekend, the defense ministry said. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military's Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from Sochi. (Vladimir Velengurin/Emergency Situations Ministry Photo via AP)
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In this late Monday, Dec. 26, 2016 frame grab provided by the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry Press Service, the ministry employees lift a fragment of a plane in the Black Sea, outside Sochi, Russia. Rescue workers on Tuesday, Dec. 27, found a flight recorder from the Russian plane that crashed into the Black Sea over the weekend, the defense ministry said. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military's Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from Sochi. (Russian Emergency Situations Ministry Photo via AP)
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A woman puts flowers at a pier in Sochi, Russia, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military's Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern Russian city of Sochi. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin)
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Two soldiers guard Russian rescue boats at a pier just outside Sochi, Russia, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military's Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern Russian city of Sochi. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin)
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Ministry of Emergency Situations employees prepare rescue boats at a pier just outside Sochi, Russia, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military's Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern Russian city of Sochi. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin)
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Ministry of Emergency Situations employees are searching for bodies outside Sochi, Russia, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military's Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern Russian city of Sochi. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin)
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Ministry of Emergency Situations divers prepare for a search for bodies outside Sochi, Russia, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military's Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern Russian city of Sochi. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin)
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Ministry of Emergency Situations employees monitor computer screens as they search for bodies in the Black Sea, off Sochi, Russia, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military's Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern Russian city of Sochi. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin)
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Ministry of Emergency Situations divers prepare for a search for bodies outside Sochi, Russia, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military's Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern Russian city of Sochi. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin)
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Ministry of Emergency Situations employees search for bodies by a boat in the waters in the Black Sea, off Sochi, Russia, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military's Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern Russian city of Sochi. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin)
