The pundit prince! Harry waves to fans as he makes surprise pitchside appearance at Canadian cup final

Prince Harry waved to fans arsenic helium made a astonishment pitchside quality astatine the Canadian cupful final.

The Duke of Sussex had a grin ear-to-ear and gave a cheery thumbs up to the assemblage erstwhile helium turned up to the Grey Cup successful Vancouver earlier the Toronto Argonauts took connected the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

The 40-year-old gave an interrogation to The Sports Network earlier being escorted distant swiftly.

He is successful the metropolis to beforehand the the Invictus Games, which instrumentality spot successful Vancouver and Whistler from February 8 to February 16.

Speaking to TSN, helium said helium was 'looking guardant to the crippled getting started - let's go!'

Prince Harry opened up successful a affectional video astir the 'healing powerfulness of sport' up of adjacent year's Invictus Games.

The Duke of Sussex released the connection connected the authoritative relationship for the 2025 Games to beryllium held successful Vancouver, Canada, connected X, formerly Twitter successful September.

He told viewers: 'Sport has the quality to heal, to alteration lives and to prevention lives.

Harry is patron of the Invictus Games which helium established successful 2014 arsenic an planetary adaptive multi-sport lawsuit for wounded, injured, and sick servicemen and women.

Both serving troops and veterans are encouraged to vie arsenic portion of their betterment journeys.

Harry added successful his nonstop code successful the 117-second video: 'For truthful galore of these competitors, getting to the commencement enactment has been 1 of the hardest moments of their life.

'But astatine the Games, their lives are changed. Watching these magical moments happen, and athletics being the facilitator of that, is very, precise peculiar for each of america to witness.'

Earlier this summertime the prince hailed the wounded, injured and sick serving UK unit and veterans who are to instrumentality portion successful the 64-strong squad, made up of 60 competitors and 4 reserves.

They were named arsenic Team UK for what is called the Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler scheduled to beryllium held adjacent February.

Prince Harry said successful July: 'Congratulations to those selected for Team UK for our first-ever Winter Invictus Games successful Vancouver Whistler adjacent February.

'Team UK volition articulation implicit 500 competitors from crossed 20 nations successful this groundbreaking lawsuit that expands the scope and illustration of wintertime adaptive sports.

'These games contiguous an unthinkable accidental for our courageous work unit and veterans to show their skills successful caller challenges similar alpine skiing, snowboarding and skeleton, arsenic good arsenic providing a genuinely memorable acquisition for their families.

'We're excited to spot their passion, determination, and resilience connected afloat show arsenic they instrumentality connected this caller chapter.'

Next year's Invictus Games successful Vancouver volition beryllium the archetypal Invictus Games to see wintertime sports.

Team UK captain, Stephen 'Hoops' Hooper, is returning for his 2nd Invictus Games aft competing successful powerlifting and sitting volleyball astatine Dusseldorf successful 2023.

Hooper, who served successful the RAF and was diagnosed with PTSD earlier being medically discharged successful 2021, said: 'To beryllium selected for Team UK again was overwhelming successful itself, but to beryllium skipper arsenic well, is simply a privilege.

'I gained a batch from the full Team UK acquisition past clip around, I've gone from lasting successful the country of a country and not talking to anybody, to uncovering my dependable again.

'And that's what I privation to bash for others this clip - marque definite each subordinate of Team UK comes unneurotic and takes those steps guardant successful their recovery.'