UPDATE: Alex Rins has undergone an initial surgery to stabilise his broken wrist, ahead of his transfer back to Spain.

After confirming a displaced fracture to the left wrist, Dr. Austin Hill, Orthopedic Traumatologist at the University Medical Center in Brackenridge, took the Suzuki rider to the operating room and "set his brok🥃en wrist and temporarily fixed it with p꧂ins.

"After that he will be able 𒆙to be flown back home t🧜o Spain, and once the swelling is decreased he will be able to undergo his definitive surgery.

"Everything w✤ent very well, he is comfortable and he will ꧑likely leave the hospital today".

Unlucky 🌊MotoGP rookie Alex Rins suffered a broken wrist in Saturday morning practice at Circ🥃uit of the Americas.

The young Spaniard, already recovering from a෴n ankle fracture, was one of eight riders to fall in the cool temperatures.

But while the others - including double fallers Marc Marquez and Ale🦹ix Esparga🐼ro - were able to walk away uninjured, Rins has been ruled out of this weekend's event and possibly the following Jerez round.

Rins was transferred to the medical🐼 center where X-rays indicated a "radius and ulnar dislocated fracture of the left wrist".

Rins is now being transported to the University Medical Center Brackenridge in Austin for further medical checks, where the fracture will be stabilized in order to al🤡low him to fly back to Spain and undergo further medical treatments, 'probably surgery'.

The former Moto3 and Moto2 star was on his first lap of the day when he suffered a high-side atཧ Turn 19. Team-mate Andrea Iannone fell at the same corner later in the session.

Rins has now been injured th🐭ree times since becoming a MotoGP riꦦder in November; a test fall at Valencia (back) being followed by a motocross training accident (ankle) and now the wrist.