Invictus Games

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Prince Harry at the 2017 opening ceremony

The Invictus Games are a Paralympic sporting event for disabled soldiers, which was first held in London in 2014 in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park . The word invictus comes from Latin and means undefeated, undefeated . The word games , on the other hand, comes from English and means games or sports events .

Over 300 athletes from 13 countries took part in the first staging of the sporting event. The soldiers had fought alongside British troops primarily in the war in Afghanistan and had been wounded during combat operations.

prehistory

In 2013, Britain's Prince Harry took part in the US Warrior Games in the USA as a member of a team of British soldiers , which gave him the idea of ​​holding a similar event in the UK. With the support of Boris Johnson , Lord Mayor of London, the Organizing Committee of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the UK Department of Defense , the event was set up within ten months. The project was supported with £ 1 million from the Royal Foundation , a charity fund set up by Prince Harry, his brother William, Duke of Cambridge , and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge . The UK Treasury contributed another million from a fund set up with penalties from the Libor scandal . Sponsor of the Games was Jaguar Cars / Land Rover .

On March 6, 2014, Prince Harry announced in the London Copper Box that the Invictus Games would be held the following September. The prince said the games should “demonstrate the importance of sport in recovery, support rehabilitation and demonstrate life beyond disability” (“demonstrate the power of sport to inspire recovery, support rehabilitation and demonstrate life beyond disability”). Another long-term goal is to remember the involvement of British troops in the Afghanistan war .

2014

Presentation of the British team in London

The first edition of the Invictus Games took place from September 10-14, 2014. The winners and those placed received medals and certificates, but there was expressly no official medal table by nationality.

The opening ceremony was attended by British Prime Minister David Cameron , Prince Harry, Prince William, Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall , and Michelle Obama sent a message of greeting.

The sporting competitions were held in the sports facilities of the 2012 Summer Olympics and were televised by the BBC . The closing ceremony, which featured well-known musicians such as the Foo Fighters , Kaiser Chiefs and James Blunt , was held in front of over 25,000 people in the sold-out Olympic Park .

Prince Harry, who turned 30 one day after the end of the games, was given a T-shirt with the inscription I AM 30 from the German team , referring to the yellow letters I AM in the logo of the games.

Invited countries

Participants from the following countries were invited to the first edition in 2014:

sports

100 meter run

Athletics , archery , indoor rowing , weight lifting , road cycling , sitting volleyball , swimming , wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby . The sponsor Jaguar Land Rover also organized a car race.

Venues

2016

The second Invictus Games took place from May 8th to May 12th, 2016. The venue was the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando (Florida) .

Prince Harry attended the opening ceremony, Michelle Obama and Jill Biden .

Invited countries

In 2016 athletes from the following nations took part:

2017

The third edition of the Invictus Games took place in Toronto from September 23-30, 2017 . In addition to the 15 nations that participated in 2016, other countries have also been invited; In addition to Prince Harry, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and actor Mike Myers spoke at the opening ceremony . A total of around 500 athletes took part. Former US President Barack Obama his Vice Joe Biden was there as a spectator at some competitions. Musicians Bruce Springsteen , Kelly Clarkson and Bryan Adams performed at the closing event .

Participating Nations

Invictus Games 2017 medals marked "I AM"

2018

The fourth Invictus Games took place from October 20-28, 2018 in Sydney , Australia .

Participating Nations

2020

The fifth event was to take place from May 9th to 16th, 2020 in The Hague , the Netherlands . Ten different sports were on the program: athletics, weightlifting , archery , indoor rowing , wheelchair basketball , wheelchair rugby , cycling , sitting volleyball and swimming . Except for the swimming competitions (in Ypenburg ), all competitions should be held around the Zuiderpark in The Hague. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the Invictus Games have been postponed to 2021.

2022

The Union and SPD parliamentary groups in the German Bundestag are campaigning for a 2022 event in Germany. In September 2019, a German delegation headed by the Mayor of Düsseldorf Thomas Geisel traveled to London to advertise that the Games be awarded to Düsseldorf.

On January 16, 2020, Prince Harry announced that the event would take place in Düsseldorf in 2022.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prince Harry launches Paralympic-style games for soldiers. BBC News, March 6, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 .
  2. ↑ What this inspiring contest means to me. London Evening Standard, March 6, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 .
  3. ^ Prince Harry launches Invictus Games for injured troops at Olympic Park. The Guardian, March 6, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 .
  4. ↑ a b c Prince Harry launches 'Invictus Games' for wounded vets. USA Today, March 6, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e Sherwin Adam: Prince Harry wins £ 1m funding in LIBOR bank fines to help stage 'Invictus Games' for injured servicemen and women at the Olympic Park. The Independent, March 6, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 .
  6. ^ Robert Jobson: London will host Prince Harry's version of the Warrior Games. London Evening Standard, March 6, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Video: Prince Harry launches Invictus Games for wounded servicemen. The Daily Telegraph, March 6, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 .
  8. ^ Prince Harry calls for public support for September's Invictus Games for disabled soldiers. East London Advertiser, March 7, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Sam Adams: What are the Invictus Games? Daily Mirror, March 6, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 .
  10. ^ Prince Harry launches Invictus Games for soldiers. Zee News, March 6, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Results. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 14, 2014 ; accessed on September 15, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / results.invictusgames.org
  12. ^ Prince Harry's Invictus Games open. BBC, September 10, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 .
  13. ^ Harry praises games competitors. Mail Online, September 14, 2014, accessed on September 15, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Invictus Games climax marks Prince Harry's 30th birthday. The Daily Telegraph , September 15, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 .
  15. ^ Prince Harry: Join me in cheering on these inspirational men and women. In: London Evening Standard. May 12, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Prince Harry joins First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Biden to officially launch Invictus Games Orlando 2016. (No longer available online.) Invictus Games, October 28, 2016, archived from the original ; accessed on May 11, 2016 (English).
  17. ↑ Invictus Games 2017 , accessed May 12, 2016
  18. ↑ Chris Osborne: Invictus Games - UK medals & opening ceremony. In: bbc.com. September 24, 2017, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Invictus Games Toronto 2017 Officially Begin with an Opening Ceremony Honoring Competitors and Their Families. In: Invictus Games Foundation. September 25, 2017, accessed October 3, 2017 .
  20. ^ Former President Obama, Bidens join Prince Harry at Invictus Games. In: ABC News. September 29, 2017, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Ross Mcdonagh: Kelly Clarkson performs at the Invictus Games closing ceremony. In: dailymail.co.uk. October 1, 2017, accessed October 3, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Het programma. Invictus Games, accessed September 21, 2019 (Dutch).
  23. ^ Message on invictusgames2020.com, accessed on April 13, 2020
  24. ↑ Printed matter 19/8262 German Bundestag. Retrieved May 30, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Is Prince Harry coming to NRW? How Düsseldorf is promoting the "Invictus Games" 2022. In: Spiegel Online . September 17, 2019, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  26. ↑ "Invictus Games" 2022 will take place in Düsseldorf. In: Spiegel Online . January 16, 2020, accessed January 16, 2020 .