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He continued, “Over the past decade, I’ve lost count of the times that we’ve heard you tell us that the Invictus Games saved you. Respectfully, I disagree. Invictus didn’t save you. You saved yourself.

“It was you who pushed through the doubt and despair, you who summited your own mountain and brought us along with you. It was you who kept going, even when you didn’t think you had any more to give. We didn’t do that. You did.

“The games simply reveal what is already within you, that scarcest and most precious of the world’s resources, character, a spirit of fortitude and perseverance that can never be defeated, that is the magic of the Invictus Games.”