Prince Harry gets his 'annual fix' of Invictus Games as he gears up for 2025
Prince Harry once again proved his love for the Invictus Games and those who compete in them.
The Duke of Sussex was interviewed by Good Morning America co-host Will Reeve where he spoke about King Charles' cancer diagnosis, the possibility of becoming an American citizen, and more. Harry also took Will behind the scenes as Invictus Games competitors practice for the games' first-ever Winter Games in Canada.
Harry started the Invictus Games to give veterans and active service members worldwide the chance to compete in Olympic-style games. As seen in Harry's Netflix documentary series, Heart of Invictus, the games help empower those who were wounded.
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Harry spoke to Will Reeve of Good Morning America (GMA/Twitter)"Once you leave the military from a uniform standpoint, you never leave the community," Harry told Will on the American morning show.
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He told the co-host that the Invictus Games are "literally my annual fix to be amongst this community and have a laugh, have fun. No matter which nation they're from the banter is the same. I get a little bit of energy being around these guys."
Harry and Will talked to a few of the people on the slopes. Alex, a Paralympic skier, and instructor for the competitors said that the games are "normalising a little bit of a hidden world of disabilities. The more people that know the better."
"It's proving to people that this is possible no matter what your disability is," Harry agreed.
The Duke got emotional as he used a phone to talk to a Ukranian competitor and translate the conversation. "I am here to help my brothers who are currently wounded in the Ukrainian hospital," the translating app said.
He got emotional talking to a Ukrainian soldier (GMA/Twitter)Harry cleared his throat and said: "It stirs the emotions you know, it's not lost on me, it's not lost on any of us, the thousands of Ukrainians that are being injured now."
About the Games themselves, Harry told the GMA co-host what he was most grateful to the games for. "They're just not about the individual, everyone always pays attention, rightly so, to the person who got injured," he said, "When one person gets injured, the whole family gets injured because their lives are changed, turned upside down forever."
He emphasized that the games provide the resources and the opportunities and the platform for them to heal themselves because they heal themselves and the whole family heals so to me that is without a doubt the most rewarding piece to all of this."
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