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UK Team Prepare For Invictus Glory
110 British athletes have left Gatwick and are heading for Orlando for the 2016 Invictus games.
The team checked in last night complete with bows, arrows, racing wheelchairs and hand bikes - all tenderly wrapped and taped up for the flight across the Atlantic.
They will take on ex-servicemen and women from 15 other nations including Afghanistan, New Zealand and Jordan in 10 different events.
A total of 500 competitors will take part in what is the second ever Invictus games, following the success of the first event in London in 2014.
The team will land in Florida tonight ahead of the opening ceremony on Sunday, when the games will officially commence.
Virgin Atlantic is sponsoring Forces TV's travel to Orlando to cover the Invictus Games.
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