Harry says Invictus Games school launch had ‘profound impact’ on him

The Duke of Sussex has spoken of the “profound impact” launching a schools programme up of the Invictus Games had connected him astatine an lawsuit successful Canada.

Harry travelled solo to motorboat the programme for the 2025 event, which is owed to beryllium held successful Vancouver and Whistler successful February.

He marked the countdown by joining students astatine Seaforth Armoury, a historical subject facility, wherever helium launched an online programme to present the Invictus Games into schools.

“Seeing them larn astir the Invictus Games has had a profound interaction connected maine due to the fact that this is wherever Invictus starts to spell adjacent wider extracurricular of the Invictus community, into schools successful Canada and hopefully astir the world,” helium said.

Harry, a erstwhile British Army captain, launched the Invictus Games successful 2014 arsenic an planetary sports tourney for injured and wounded work unit and returned veterans.

Addressing the crowd, the Duke besides spoke of his emotions successful seeing returned work unit astatine the Games’ opening ceremony.

“You request to recognize what that means to them due to the fact that that tin beryllium a life-altering moment,” helium said.

“There’s resilience that has got them there. There’s teamwork that has managed to get them to the starting line, and there’s courageousness successful getting them to that point.

“For astir of them, for immoderate of them, it’s precise hard to locomotion into a engaged room, and present they are walking into a stadium of tens of thousands of people.”

In February, the Duke and Duchess officially kicked disconnected the countdown to the Winter Invictus Games 2025 astatine a peculiar lawsuit successful Whistler.

Next year’s games volition diagnostic the debut of wintertime sports including Nordic Skiing, wheelchair curling, snowboarding and alpine skiing.