And the winner is ... Prince Harry announces Sydney will host 2018 Invictus Games
AND the winner is ... Sydney. Again! In another big win for the harbour city, royal patron Prince Harry has announced the increasingly prestigious Invictus Games will be held here in 2018.
AND the winner is ... Sydney. Again.
In another big win for the harbour city, royal patron Prince Harry has announced the increasingly prestigious Invictus Games will be held here in 2018.
Sydney won the bid over the Gold Coast, with the opening ceremony to be held at the Opera House and a closing ceremony at Garden Island.
“Sydney is a natural venue for the Invictus Games and we have already hosted the Paralympics,” NSW Veterans Affairs Minister David Elliot said.
The event will bring more than 600 service personnel from more than 16 nations to the state for nearly a week.
The games are for wounded, injured and sick service personnel.
Events will be held at Sydney Olympic Park and Darling Harbour.
Prince Harry held the inaugural Invictus Games in 2014 in London, before it went to Orlando, Florida this year.
It will be held in Toronto in 2017 before arriving on our shores the following year.
Prince Harry previously said these games “have shone a spotlight on the ‘unconquerable’ character of service men and women and their families and their ‘Invictus’ spirit”.
“These games have been about seeing guys sprinting for the finish line and then turning round to clap the last man in,” he said.
“They have been about teammates choosing to cross the line together, not wanting to come second, but not wanting the other guys to either.
“These games have shown the very best of the human spirit.”
Originally published as And the winner is ... Prince Harry announces Sydney will host 2018 Invictus Games
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