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Connor Fields

Olympic Champion, Emmy winner, resilience expert, always moving foward

Connor Fields is the only Olympic athlete to both win gold and nearly die competing at the Olympics. In The Move Forward Mindset, he shares his processes for peak performance, adaptability, reinvention, and resilience, giving audiences practical tools for the moment the plan is gone and they must move forward.

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Connor Fields is a three-time Olympian, two-time World Champion, and the only American to win Olympic gold in BMX Racing. He has represented the United States more than 50 times in over 25 countries. At 17, he became the youngest rider ever to reach the podium at a BMX World Cup. At just 19, he lined up at the 2012 London Olympics as the youngest athlete in his sport, racing men whose signed posters once hung on his bedroom walls. In 2016, he reached the pinnacle of Olympic success and brought home the gold medal.

Then came Tokyo. At the 2021 Games, Connor was the number one seed in his semi-final, so close to a second Olympic title, when a mid-race collision slammed him into the track at 40 miles per hour. It is remembered as one of the worst accidents in Olympic history. He spent five days unconscious, fighting for his life, with a traumatic brain injury that included life-threatening hemorrhages in four areas of his brain, along with broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and torn shoulder and bicep ligaments. He is the only Olympian in history to both conquer the Games and nearly die competing in them.

His recovery demanded more than physical healing. Connor fought to regain his memory, rebuild his speech, and even his balance, a skill that once came as naturally as breathing. After a grueling year of rehabilitation, he got back on his bike the very first day he was cleared to ride. His career was over, but he refused to let one race define 22 years in the sport. He was determined to go out on his own terms.

Today, Connor is an Emmy Award-winning member of the NBC broadcast team, serves on the boards of USA Cycling and USABMX, and coaches the next generation of riders. He delivers his keynote, The Move Forward Mindset, igniting audiences to keep moving forward after wins, losses, missed targets, and sudden change.

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