It has come to news that Kevin Pearce, the Olympic snowboard hopeful and also Burton Global Team Rider has been seriously injured.

Reportedly he was injured when he was practicing at Park City Mountain Resort in Utah, when hitting his head on the wall of the half-pipe, on Thursday afternoon.

According to The New York Times, Pearce was taken to the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City, and underwent immediate surgery, to relieve fluid which had built up around his brain.

He was still coming off a concussion which he sustained earlier in the month, while he was competing in a qualifying run at the Copper Mountain Grand Prix

His agent Sue Izzo, his agent said there were no other details to be released. While his parents Simon and Pia are on their way to Salt Lake City from their home in Norwich to be with their son.

His website has been inundated with viewers almost making it impossible to view, and meanwhile on Twitter numerous tributes and well wishes are voicing their thoughts for the Snowboarding star.

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien welcomed a special guest, Olympic Silver medalist snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler of Aspen, Colorado.

She was joined by Saturday Night Live alum Norm MacDonald and music guest Dan Cummins.

Bleiler said about her visit to the show, “I am super excited to be going on the Conan O’Brien show. I think he is the man and I love watching his show. It’s going to be an awesome experience to be on the couch myself.”

She is on her way for the preparations for the season’s first Olympic qualification event, but before she hits the halfpipe at Copper Mountain, she had time to visit the show to talk about snowboarding and performing at the event, the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix.

She spoke before the show saying “I know we’re going to be talking about the season ahead and the Olympics as well as the Olympic qualifiers,” she continued. “We also have something secret planned that would be unique and fun for the show, but I’m not sure if it will work out. Everyone will have to tune in to see.”

The snowboarder born in 1981 started snowboarding at the age of 11. She was the first female to land a Crippler 540 in competition, and also has won more halfpipe competitions in 2003, 2005 and 2006 than any other female.

In 2003 , she was a U.S. snowboard Grand Prix Champion, a U.S. Open of snowboarding champion and also a Triple Crown of Snowboarding Champion.