WHISTLER, British Columbia (AP) — Prince Harry raced head-first on a tiny skeleton sled going 99 kph (61.5 mph) down a observe at subsequent yr’s Invictus Video games website Thursday, saying with a smile afterward that everybody ought to do it.
Harry was in Whistler, British Columbia, with spouse Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, to go to athletes at coaching camps and to advertise the video games he based for wounded, injured or sick service personnel and veterans after he served in Afghanistan.
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The British prince did two runs on one of many world’s quickest bobsled tracks, which additionally hosts skeleton races.
The 2025 video games in Vancouver and Whistler would be the first to characteristic winter sports activities, together with the skeleton, snowboarding occasions and wheelchair curling, however it is going to additionally host occasions it has beforehand, similar to indoor rowing, sitting volleyball, swimming, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball.
Cowbells rang out because the prince completed his first run, and when he was helped off the observe, he took off his helmet and stated with a smile that “everybody ought to do that, it needs to be obligatory.”
Meghan was ready on the backside of the observe after each of his runs.
“Meghan, you’ve acquired to go,” somebody shouted. “No method,” she replied.
Skilled sliders begin on the prime of the observe, though the prince began on the midway mark. He was given a security briefing first, and medics had been standing by.
American Ivan Morera, a single-arm amputee who was wounded in a fight zone in Afghanistan, was in Whistler for the coaching camp.
He stated he appreciated Harry giving service members a chance to search out function after harm.
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“I’m repeatedly recovering from this harm, perhaps not bodily, however emotionally, mentally,” Morera stated in an interview. “A giant catastrophic occasion like that impacts you, so adaptive sports activities is my method of coping with that.”
The 2025 video games can have about 500 opponents from 23 nations from Feb. 8-16, 2025.