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Russia’s contingent at the Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing plan to leave China after being banned from participating because of the country’s invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) said on Friday. The RPC added that it would not appeal the decision to ban its athletes to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) following legal advice. Russian and Belarusian athletes were barred from the Winter Paralympics by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) on Thursday after initially being allowed to compete as neutrals. Belarus has been a key staging area for the full-scal…