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Invictus Games Coming to Whistler

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In February 2025 — 15 years after it served as Host Mountain Resort for the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games — Whistler will be at the centre of a global, multi-sport competition when it co-hosts the 2025 Invictus Games.
Current and former soldiers who have suffered from combat-related injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through their experiences in war zones will step into the global spotlight for competitions in Vancouver and Whistler from Feb. 8 to 16, 2025.

The Invictus Games Foundation, headed by former soldier Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, has hosted the Invictus Games five times, most recently in 2023 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
This is the first time that winter sports will be incorporated into the games. Vancouver will host indoor rowing, sitting volleyball, swimming, wheelchair basketball, and wheelchair curling. Whistler will host competitions in five sports — alpine skiing and snowboarding on Whistler Mountain, skeleton at the Whistler Sliding Centre, and Nordic skiing and biathlon at Whistler Olympic Park in the Callaghan Valley.

The focus of the Invictus movement is not on medals but on healing and moving forward through sport.
“My injury is not the end of the story, in fact, it’s just the beginning,” Robert Pullen, who will compete in alpine sit skiing, wheelchair basketball and indoor rowing for Team Canada, said in a statement. “Having the Games there for us helps cement that in and go, ‘Listen, dude, this is just the beginning, this is just the beginning.’”
As with the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, the Four Host First Nations — Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Lil’wat — will play a significant role in hosting the games in their traditional territories.

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