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Prince Harry was named as one of Time Magazine’s ‘Most Influential People in Sports’

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Time magazine has released its first list of the most influential people in sports, Time 100 Sports, a list of the 100 most influential people in the world of sports, ranging from athletes to coaches, sports journalists, team owners and… Prince Harry, founder of the Invictus Games. Seriously, Harry made the list!! The list also includes: LeBron James (he’s on the cover of this issue), Lionel Messi, Hilary Knight, Aryna Sabalenka, Steph Curry, Eileen Gu, Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, A’ja Wilson, Caitlin Clark, Wembley, Rory, Ronaldo, Shams (laughs) and many others. You can see the full list of times here. Here is the article on Prince Harry:

A few months after finishing his second combat tour in Afghanistan in 2013, Prince Harry lit the cauldron at the Warrior Games, a sporting event hosted by the U.S. Olympic Committee for wounded service members and veterans. Inspired to work on the concept of adaptive sports for wounded soldiers, he left the program in Colorado Springs. “I thought, ‘Wow, look at the power of the game, look at how it’s literally changing lives before my eyes,'” Harry told TIME. “It was very clear to me. Let’s invite as many countries as possible to make it international, because clearly more countries need to benefit from this.”

A little over a year later, Harry’s inaugural Invictus Games opening ceremony took place at London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. (Invictus, a Latin word, means “unconquered.”) They hosted more than 400 military personnel and veterans from 13 countries, including Afghanistan, Germany and New Zealand. There have since been six more editions of the Invictus Games, the last of which will take place in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada in 2025: those Games included winter sports such as alpine skiing, snowboarding and skeleton for the first time.

“When you wear your country’s flag on your arm, on your chest, once it’s taken away, there’s something missing,” says Harry, who served in the British Army for a decade. “What we have managed to achieve over the years through Invictus is not only to give people back their purpose and their meaning, but to give them back their identity.”

The Invictus Games melded Harry’s passion for sport – he participated in rugby, football, cricket and polo growing up – with his desire to give back to veterans. “Sports kept me together,” he says. “I was one of those kids in school who didn’t enjoy class work. If there wasn’t a playground and so many sports available, there was no way I would have stayed in school.”

Harry hopes to continue growing the Invictus Games and perhaps make it a two-week event instead of one, so more service members can have the opportunity to compete. “One of the things we really celebrate at Invictus is that we not only change lives, we save lives,” he says. “It’s not based on anything other than the number of individuals who come to me and say, ‘If it weren’t for Invictus, I would kill myself.'”

In July, Harry is set to travel to the UK to celebrate next summer’s Invictus Games in Birmingham, which will welcome approximately 550 competitors from around 25 countries and add three new sports to the program: eSports, Laser Run (which combines cross-country running with pistol shooting), and pickleball. “Being among that community, those are the moments I cherish,” he says. “You want every society, every community to have that feeling about it.”

(from Time magazine)

Pickleball!! I didn’t know it was being added to the Birmingham Games. Anyway, this is really cool and really important – it shows once again that the biggest part of Harry’s legacy is his creation of Invictus, and that’s why there’s been a hate campaign targeting the Games for years. To this day, the most fanatical royal journalists and biographers are still spinning disgusting lies about the Games and Harry’s participation in them. Time Magazine – like the ESPYs – are effectively doubling down and saying, no, Invictus is legitimate, it’s important and cool and Harry is a global leader in the sport. Do you know who did not make the Time 100 Sports list? A certain football patron who was too lazy to attend the Women’s World Cup, and is also too lazy to attend this year’s World Cup (Unless England reach the quarter-finals).

Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images.




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