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Blind Snowboarder at Invictus Games Shares Special Moment With Prince Harry
Michael Murphy, who lost his sight in an airfield accident, talked about bonding with Prince Harry at the 2025 Invictus Games
Retired Army Staff Sergeant Michael Murphy — who lost his eyesight in a December 2018 airfield accident in Volos, Greece — discussed a touching moment with Us Weekly between him and Prince Harry, 40, at this year’s Invictus Games (the first to feature winter sports). “Introducing winter sports to the Invictus Games is a huge milestone — one we’ve been working toward for a long time — so witnessing both the competition and the pure joy on everyone’s faces makes me really happy.” Of the Games, Murphy added to Us, “The entire environment here, I tell multiple people, this is one area [where], being around other adaptive athletes, that I don’t feel impaired, blind or however you may look at it, handicapped.
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