The adaptive event is aimed at wounded, injured or sick Armed Forces personnel and veterans, and it takes its name from the Latin word 'Invictus', meaning 'unconquered' or 'undefeated'. Next year, Vancouver and Whistler will host the seventh instalment of the games, which includes new winter sports for the first time.

2020 Invictus Games They were then postponed again to the spring of 2022. The new dates were 16 April to 22 April 2022. In April 2021, it was announced that Heart of Invictus, a Netflix documentary series in partnership with Invictus Games and Archewell, would surround the competitors from the 2022 Invictus Games.

Mike Tindall has not been appointed a UK patron of the Invictus Games, sources have revealed. He will instead focus on his podcast, TV work and an extended stay in Australia with his family in 2025.

Earlier this week, the Duke of Sussex attended a thanksgiving service in St Paul's Cathedral to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games. Prince Harry founded the games - a sporting competition for injured service men and women - in 2014.