interview
More than sport
The Invictus Games
harness the power of
sport to inspire recovery,
support rehabilitation
and generate respect and
understanding for those
who serve their country.
Link meets Invictus
Games competitor Jeff
Wright.
C
ompeting against the United “There’s this great photograph
States for the bronze medal (on this page) of a US player rocketing
in wheelchair rugby was a through some Aussie defence, and
huge highlight for Jeff Wright in his guys like him inspire me to get
first Invictus Games competition in stronger. I certainly feel that I’ve got
Toronto, Canada, in September. unfinished business … to get even
“It was a great match and we came
close to knocking them over, but in
‘unconquered’. It embodies the
and finished fourth,” said Jeff, who fighting spirit of the wounded, injured
lives in Townsville, Queensland. and sick service personnel and what
“We missed out on the medal,
the top three teams, and coming
invictus games
The word Invictus means
the end we went down by five points
but we earned a lot of respect from
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more competitive.”
these tenacious men and women can
achieve, post injury.
An initiative of HRH Prince Harry,
that close to the US was a big the fourth Invictus Games in Toronto
improvement for the Aussies. brought together over 550 serving
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