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Prince Harry, on video for a sad message: “Invictus Games postponed”

Nothing to do, the Invictus Games will not take place not even this year. For the second consecutive season, the principe Harry is forced to postpone the sporting event reserved for war veterans who have contracted permanent disabilities in service or for reasons of service: « coronavirus has changed plans and expectations, ”said the Duke of Sussex, returning to be seen in a video message.

«Our mission is still based on resilience and on the sense of communityAdds Harry, who founded the Invictus Games in 2014. «A mission that will shine from today until spring 2022, when we hope to be able to meet again in person a The Hague“. Yes, because precisely in the Dutch citizen the next edition of the event will take place (already scheduled last May, and again this year).

«We will leave together, just the world will be ready»Assured the duke in a joint statement, also signed by Mart de Kruif (president The Hague 2020) e Sir Keith Mills (president of the foundation). To think that a few weeks before the outbreak of the pandemic, the British prince had made a song with Bon Jovi, «UnbrokenWhich it should have become the hymn by the Invictus Games.

The two, after having recorded the song a London, they walked together on the famous ones Abbey Road crosswalk in honor of Beatles, unaware that shortly thereafter the whole world it would have stopped due to the explosion of the Covid-19. A year later, despite having arrived the vaccines and governments have taken severe countermeasures, in a large part of the planet the virus continues a far paura.

The emergency is not yet returned: for the Invictus Games, therefore, the appointment is at next year.

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