Olympics-Snowboarding-Australian Brockhoff returns to athletes' village after crash

By Winni Zhou and Mari Saito

ZHANGJIAKOU, China (Reuters) -Snowboarder Belle Brockhoff was returning to the athletes' village after receiving clear scans, the Australian Olympic Committee said on Saturday, following a fall during the mixed team snowboard cross quarter-final at the Beijing Games.

The Australian Olympic Committee said Brockhoff's CT and MRI scans had come back all clear after she was taken to a hospital as a precautionary measure.

Brockhoff fell as she was chasing American Lindsey Jacobellis in the quarter-final after their boards clipped each other. Brockhoff was taken off the course in a stretcher and later transported to hospital.

Heavy snow began to fall in Zhangjiakou ahead of Saturday's final, covering the course with a layer of powdery snow. Air temperatures fell to minus 11 degrees Celsius (12.2 degrees Fahrenheit) and visibility was lower than normal.

(Reporting by Winni Zhou and Mari Saito; Editing by Peter Rutherford, Shri Navaratnam and Christian Schmollinger)