Connor Fields was given three words early in the rehabilitation process and was asked to say them backward: Chair, tree, curtain…curtain, tree, chair. “I couldn’t do it,” he said. He was also relayed ...

Connor Fields was thumbing through his Instagram app this week when he received notification that he was tagged in a video. “It follows me around,” he says of the video of the gruesome crash at the ...

BMX rider Saya Sakakibara is all too aware of the risks of her chosen profession. Her brother sustained a traumatic brain injury while racing, and Sakakibara has had two severe concussions, the second ...

Kye Whyte was stretchered off the track but sustained “no significant injuries” after crashing out of the BMX racing semi-finals at the Olympics. Whyte, Great Britain’s Olympic silver medallist from ...

United States BMX racer Connor Fields, who crashed and suffered a head injury during competition at the Tokyo Olympics, will be released from St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo on Thursday, ...

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BMX rider Connor Fields was transferred from the intensive care unit at a Tokyo hospital to a high-level care wing Saturday, one day after a horrific crash during the semifinals of the Olympic race ...

When Kai Sakakibara stood up for the first time three months after the accident that nearly claimed his life, he thought he ...

TOKYO (AP) — BMX rider Connor Fields has been transferred from the intensive care unit at a Tokyo hospital to a high-level care wing. He was involved in a horrific crash Saturday during the semifinals ...