A canvas in his living room reminds Connor Fields why he keeps pushing himself.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old BMX rider\u2019s home decor includes a panoramic view of Rio de Janeiro, purchased when he bought his Henderson home in 2012.<\/p>\n
The sale in October came two months after Fields, then 19, crashed in the final BMX race of the 2012 London Olympics after cruising through preliminaries.<\/p>\n
Now older and more mature, Fields is hoping four years of motivation from looking at Rio\u2019s famous Christ the Redeemer statue is enough for him to push through an injury setback and craft a redemption story of his own\u00a0 …\u00a0 More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A canvas in his living room reminds Connor Fields why he keeps pushing himself. The 23-year-old BMX rider\u2019s home decor includes a panoramic view of Rio de Janeiro, purchased when he bought his Henderson home in 2012. The sale in October came two months after Fields, then 19, crashed in the final BMX race of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120942,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120941\/revisions\/120942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}