Alise Willoughby won her third BMX racing world championship title on Saturday, securing qualification for her fourth Olympics in Paris later this year.
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Tokyo Olympics: American BMX racer Connor Fields suffered a BRAIN HAEMORRHAGE in horror crash
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This was the first Olympic gold medal for South Africa at Tokyo 2020.
Meanwhile, it was a double medal for Team USA as Lilly King and Annie Lazor took silver and bronze.
Gold and new Olympic Record for ROCâs Evgeny Rylov in menâs 200m backstroke final
Evgeny Rylov of Team ROC competes in the Menâs 200m Backstroke Semifinal at Tokyo Aquatics Centre on July 29, 2021. (Photo: Getty Images)
Evgeny Rylov of the ROC produced an immense swim to win the menâs 200m backstroke final in a new Olympic Record time of 1:53.27. The 24-year-old touched the wall first, 0.88 seconds ahead of the USAâs Ryan Murphy and 1.45 before bronze medallist Luke Greenbank of Team GB.
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TOKYO American Connor Fields, a medal favorite in BMX cycling, was awake and awaiting further medical evaluation after crashing during a semifinal heat Friday at the Olympics, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. BMX racing team.
There was no information on Fields’ injuries, said Angelina Palermo, the spokesperson.
Sports Illustrated reported that Fields father, Mike, said his son was “alert, answering questions and moving all his limbs.”
Fields, 28, was taken off the course on a stretcher, loaded into an ambulance and transported to a hospital.
The crash took place on the first turn of the race. Fields was in second place when his front wheel appeared to catch the back wheel of the leader, France s Romain Mahieu.