BMX racer Connor Fields, who 'nearly died' after crash at Tokyo Olympics, is undergoing rehab
BMX racer Connor Fields is undergoing evaluation and rehabilitation for a brain hemorrhage he suffered at the Olympics during a crash that Fields said was nearly fatal.
“Do people realize I nearly died?’’ he wrote on Twitter in response to comments that the Paris Games are only three years away.
“Brain hemmorage? [sic] No memory.... Maybe I’m not ready to commit to that yet? Can we chill for just a sec? Maybe focus on lunch next week first....’’
Fields, 28, is being treated at the University of Utah Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital in Salt Lake City and will be there for a month, his father told Paste BN Sports on Wednesday.
“They’re optimistic he’ll be all right,’’ Mike Fields said by text message. “They’re terrific, and Connor is doing well.’’
Connor Fields, a gold medalist at the 2016 Olympics, was a medal favorite at the Tokyo Games before crashing July 29 in a semifinal heat. In addition to the brain hemorrhage, he suffered a broken rib and bruised lung in the crash.
Fields, who lives in Nevada, had been hospitalized in Tokyo for about a week before being discharged and flying back to the United States.