Prince Harry hopes to expand Invictus Games

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Prince Harry says he hopes to expand the Invictus Games in the future, saying the "sky's the limit".

He launched the Paralympic-style competition for injured servicemen and servicewomen and veterans in 2014.

The prince was joined at the closing ceremony by his girlfriend Meghan Markle and her mother Doria Radlan.

Prince Harry hopes to expand Invictus Games


BBC News
1 October 2017


Prince Harry's girlfriend Meghan Markle watches the closing ceremony alongside her mother

Prince Harry says he hopes to expand the Invictus Games in the future, saying the "sky's the limit".

He launched the Paralympic-style competition for injured servicemen and servicewomen and veterans in 2014.

The prince was joined at the closing ceremony by his girlfriend Meghan Markle and her mother Doria Radlan.

He made a speech, watched by the participants from the 17 nations who have taken part during the week-long event in the Canadian city of Toronto.


In his closing speech, Prince Harry urged people to take inspiration from the athletes and set an Invictus goal for themselves

Canada has hosted over 500 participants at the third edition of the Invictus Games - the first was held in 2014 in London

Prince Harry, in an interview with the host broadcaster, said: "We have a social responsibility to continue this for as long as it's needed."

Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams and Kelly Clarkson were among the acts to perform at the closing ceremony.


Bruce Springsteen and Bryan Adams performed their own sets and then sang two songs together - Badlands and Cuts Like A Knife

Former US president Barack Obama made a surprise appearance at the Games on Friday, while US First Lady Melania Trump accompanied Prince Harry at last week's opening ceremony.

And at the closing ceremony, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, wife of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, handed out participation medals to the competitors.

In a rousing send-off to all who competed at the third Invictus Games, Prince Harry addressed them directly in his closing speech, saying: "Right now you're on a high. At the summit of a mountain many of you thought was too high to climb. You have done it.

"This is the moment, right here, right now, shoulder to shoulder. You are Invictus."


Prince Harry served in the army for 10 years


Prince Harry and Bruce Springsteen met some of the competitors at the closing ceremony


Great Britain finished second, behind the USA, in this year's Invictus Games medals table


The first Invictus Games were held in London in 2014

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Danbones

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They all looked better before they were injured.
Maybe there are games people should stop playing
;)

Took us over 40 years to get my fathers army dough for being injured during WW2
Other then the promo, these people care EFFE all for the wounded vets.
Less for the dead ones.

Just count the suicides at the VA in the US
The Pentagon reported Friday that 265 active-duty servicemembers killed themselves last year, continuing a trend of unusually high suicide rates that have plagued the U.S. military for at least seven years
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ary-suicides-remain-stubbornly-high/82518278/
 

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They all looked better before they were injured.
Maybe there are games people should stop playing
;)

Took us over 40 years to get my fathers army dough for being injured during WW2
Other then the promo, these people care EFFE all for the wounded vets.
Less for the dead ones.

Just count the suicides at the VA in the US

Prince Harry certainly cares for them.
 

Danbones

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Well, he has a more personal stake then the average pencil pusher does..I will give him that.

Look, its amazing when any handicapped person succeeds at anything in our world.
We are already over quota, but if wishes were wings I guess, we'ed stop the manufacture of extra cripples.

PS
since I have seen Springsteen's logic in the world, I have stopped listening to his music.
never did like any but his one anti war song...Born in the USA any way.
 

Blackleaf

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Well, he has a more personal stake then the average pencil pusher does..I will give him that.

He's an army veteran himself.

Look, its amazing when any handicapped person succeeds at anything in our world.
We are already over quota, but if wishes were wings I guess, we'ed stop the manufacture of extra cripples.
Not all of the competitors in the Invictus Games are handicapped. Some are just military veterans.

PS
since I have seen Springsteen's logic in the world, I have stopped listening to his music.
never did like any but his one anti war song...Born in the USA any way.
They should have had the Military Wives Choirs performing.