Overview
- This week Time included Prince Harry on its TIME100 Sports list in recognition of his role founding and promoting the Invictus Games.
- Harry told Time that sport kept him at Eton and that his experience lighting the cauldron at the 2013 Warrior Games inspired the creation of the Invictus movement.
- He said participants frequently tell him the Games restore identity and meaning, with some crediting Invictus with preventing suicide.
- Organizers have grown Invictus from the first 2014 London edition to events worldwide and plan roughly 550 athletes plus three new disciplines — esports, laser run and pickleball — for Birmingham 2027.
- The coverage notes Harry’s planned UK visit in July to promote the Games and records limited, single-source commentary that links his remarks to royal-family tensions rather than broad, corroborated reporting.