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Soldiering on RYAN’S ROCKY ROAD TO INVICTUS

It’s no exaggeration to say Ryan Buchanan’s journey to the Invictus Games is buying him extra time as he fights the battle of his life against terminal cancer.

Diagnosed in mid-2018 with soft tissue sarcoma cancer, the New Zealand Army bombardier was given 12 months to live after countless inoperable tumours were discovered in his lungs.

Yet the relentlessly positive 25-year-old refuses to be dragged down by his diagnosis. And after successfully applying to compete for New Zealand at the

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