Less than fifty days to go before the Invictus Games in Orlando (Florida) and while Prince Harry has recently announced that the third edition of the Games will take place in Toronto in September 2017, the athletes of the Paralympic Defense Sports Group are ready for challenge.
Challenge that they will face with the motto I do not give up, how they all scream together in the video made for the event. In it, the images of past experiences alternate with those of continuous and systematic training, but what strikes are the testimonies of some disabled soldiers, for whom sport has represented and represents a charge, a way to feel alive, an opportunity to to be able to face life in a different way, an activity through which to recover the social dimension, sometimes lost. In short, as Lieutenant Colonel Gianfranco Paglia says "a different choice to serve Italy: not only in uniform, but also in gym clothes".
18 will be the Italian athletes that in Orlando, from 8 to 12 May, will compete in individual disciplines such as athletics, swimming, archery, but also in team competitions such as sitting volleyball.
(photo: Invictus Games Orlando 2016)
