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Vancouver and Whistler land 2025 Invictus Games, winter sports added

Christopher Moores of Team Canada and Victoria Ross of Team United Kingdom compete during the wheelchair rugby at the 2022 Invictus Games (by Lukas Schulze/Getty Images for Invictus Games The Hague 2020)

The Invictus Games will return to Canada, with Vancouver and Whistler being awarded hosting rights to a 2025 event which will feature winter sports for the first time.

The 2025 Games will be staged in February of that year in partnership with True Patriot Love Foundation, Canada’s foundation for the military community which also helped to organise the 2017 edition of the event in Toronto.

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