Olympian Belle Brockhoff was rushed to a Georgian hospital with a broken back after a serious crash at a Snowboard Cross World Cup race on Saturday.

Australian Winter Olympian Belle Brockhoff is on the mend in a Greek hospital after a serious crash at a Snowboard Cross World Cup event in eastern Europe. The 32-year-old world champion was in her last race of the program on Saturday, the small final, when she lost her balance and flew over a jump, landing on the next peak on her coccyx.

Three-time Olympic snowboarder Belle Brockhoff has been rushed to hospital after fracturing her back in a high-speed crash while competing in Georgia, the Australian Olympic Committee said Tuesday. "Belle was airlifted from the course and taken to a Tbilisi hospital where examination and imaging revealed a fracture of the L1 vertebrae,

Olympian snowboard cross rider Belle Brockhoff breaks her back in a crash at the FIS World Cup event in Georgia.

Olympian Belle Brockhoff has been evacuated to a hospital in Greece to undergo immediate surgery on her lower back after heavily crashing her snowboard in Eastern Europe overnight.

Three-time Olympian Belle Brockhoff has been airlifted from a competition in Georgia after sustaining a serious back injury.