Canada’s 24-member team is at a training camp at CFB Esquimalt this week, getting ready for the 2023 Invictus Games from Sept. 9-16 in Dusseldorf, Germany
“It was scary and unnerving and my whole world crashed and I went into a hole,” said Mundy, who holds the rank of major in the Canadian Forces Health Services Group.“Sport has been the best thing for my diagnosis,” she said.
Armoured Corp. warrant officer Kenton Dill of Dresden, Ont., who will compete in swimming, rowing and seated volleyball, described the emotions in training camp as “like a firehose aimed at your brain.”Dill, 46, returned from three tours of duty — two in Afghanistan and one in Bosnia and Croatia — with a right-side leg injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Prince Harry chose Invictus based on the poem of the same name by Englishman William Ernest Henley, which Nelson Mandela said helped sustain him through his decades of imprisonment — and which provided the storyline for the 2009 Clint Eastwood film Invictus about Mandela’s role in host South Africa’s stirring victory in the 1995 rugby World Cup.
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