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 ...

It was July 30, 2021, at the Tokyo Games, and the American BMX racer and then-defending Olympic gold medalist had just crashed in a semifinals race. The wreck left him with blood pooled on the surface ...

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- The United States has ended its gold medal drought in BMX cycling after Connor Fields took the men's final. It was a banner day for the United States. American cyclist Alise Post ...

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