BMX: Heavily stormed Fields leaves the hospital

Rio-Olympic champion Connor Fields leaves the hospital on Thursday after his heavy fall in the BMX final in Tokyo and prepares for his return flight to the USA. At Fields, a brain bleeding had been detected, first of the 28-year-old was in the intensive care unit. The last few days he remained in the hospital observation.

Fields had lost control in his semi-final after a jump and was crashed on the ground with his head. He had then situated minutes on the racetrack before it was removed. "I'm back. I'm, I can still stand only five to ten minutes in a row, but we're working on it," he wrote at Twitter.

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According to US team doctor Jonathan Finnoff, Fields has recovered so far that he can compete the return flight to the United States. "He will return home now to start his rehab at his friends and family in Henderson / Nevada," Finnoff said.