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Formula One legend Michael Schumacher suffered a head injury while skiing in the French Alps resort of Meribel, French media reported on Sunday.

The seven-time world champion, who retired for the second time in 2012, has been taken to hospital, Europe 1 and RMC radio reported. Reuters could not immediately verify the reports.
The German is 44 years old.
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Formula One legend Michael Schumacher suffered a head injury while skiing in the French Alps resort of Meribel, French media reported on Sunday.

The seven-time world champion, who retired for the second time in 2012, has been taken to hospital, Europe 1 and RMC radio reported. Reuters could not immediately verify the reports.
The German is 44 years old.

 

Michael Schumacher forgot to change over to snow tyres [confused]

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He survived so many crashes and incidents during F1. Hope he survive this one.

Our chinese phrase says, 大 难 不 死， 必 有 後 福。。。。。。。 [nod]

He is a kind hearted rich and famous superstar [thumbsup] indeed, he shall over come this mishap eventually.

I Wish Him Speedy Recovery And Live Happily with his Family.

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He survived so many crashes and incidents during F1. Hope he survive this one.

 

crashing in the F1 car is different from crashing when skiing.

the F1 safety protection for the driver is really outta this world~!

 

I hope he will recover soon!

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Michael Schumacher, the seven-time Formula 1 champion, is "fighting for his life" after a ski accident in the French Alps, his doctors say.

The driver remains in a critical condition in hospital in Grenoble with head injuries suffered on Sunday morning at the resort of Meribel.

"We cannot tell you what the outcome will be yet," the team treating him told a news conference on Monday morning.

His family are at his bedside.

Schumacher underwent surgery on arrival at the University Hospital in Grenoble.

He remains in a coma and the medical team treating him said that they are working "hour by hour".

"All we can do is wait," they added.

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Professor Jean-Francois Payen told reporters that if Schumacher had not been wearing a protective helmet "he wouldn't be here now".

"We had to operate urgently to release some pressure in his head," Professor Payen said.

"Unfortunately, he has some lesions within his brain."

The 44-year-old German was skiing off-piste with his teenage son when he fell and hit his head on a rock.

Following the accident, Schumacher was evacuated to the hospital in the nearby town of Moutiers. He was taken from there to the larger facility in Grenoble.

Professor Payen said the driver was in an "agitated condition" on arrival in Grenoble.

He is being kept in a coma at a controlled temperature to facilitate his recovery, he added.

Retired

Schumacher, who turns 45 on 3 January, retired from F1 for a second time in 2012.

He won seven world championships and secured 91 race victories during his 19-year career.

Schumacher won two titles with Benetton, in 1994 and 1995, before switching to Ferrari in 1996 and going on to win five straight titles from 2000.

He retired in 2006, and was seriously hurt in a motorcycling accident in Spain three years later, during which he suffered neck and spine injuries.

But Schumacher managed to recover and made a comeback in F1 with Mercedes in 2010.

After three seasons which yielded just one podium finish, he quit the sport at the end of last year.

 

taken from BBC News at this link :

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25548140

 

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Michael Schumacher, the seven-time Formula 1 champion, is "fighting for his life" after a ski accident in the French Alps, his doctors say.

The driver remains in a critical condition in hospital in Grenoble with head injuries suffered on Sunday morning at the resort of Meribel.

"We cannot tell you what the outcome will be yet," the team treating him told a news conference on Monday morning.

His family are at his bedside.

Schumacher underwent surgery on arrival at the University Hospital in Grenoble.

He remains in a coma and the medical team treating him said that they are working "hour by hour".

"All we can do is wait," they added.

Helmet

Professor Jean-Francois Payen told reporters that if Schumacher had not been wearing a protective helmet "he wouldn't be here now".

"We had to operate urgently to release some pressure in his head," Professor Payen said.

"Unfortunately, he has some lesions within his brain."

The 44-year-old German was skiing off-piste with his teenage son when he fell and hit his head on a rock.

Following the accident, Schumacher was evacuated to the hospital in the nearby town of Moutiers. He was taken from there to the larger facility in Grenoble.

Professor Payen said the driver was in an "agitated condition" on arrival in Grenoble.

He is being kept in a coma at a controlled temperature to facilitate his recovery, he added.

Retired

Schumacher, who turns 45 on 3 January, retired from F1 for a second time in 2012.

He won seven world championships and secured 91 race victories during his 19-year career.

Schumacher won two titles with Benetton, in 1994 and 1995, before switching to Ferrari in 1996 and going on to win five straight titles from 2000.

He retired in 2006, and was seriously hurt in a motorcycling accident in Spain three years later, during which he suffered neck and spine injuries.

But Schumacher managed to recover and made a comeback in F1 with Mercedes in 2010.

After three seasons which yielded just one podium finish, he quit the sport at the end of last year.

 

taken from BBC News at this link :

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25548140

 

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he is a strong man.

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Formula One: Schumacher in coma, 'critical' after France ski accident

 

LYON (AFP) - Michael Schumacher, the seven-time Formula One champion, is in a coma and remains in a "critical" condition after striking his head in a ski accident in the French Alps on Sunday, Dec 29, 2013, the hospital treating him said.

The 44-year-old German was "suffering a serious brain trauma with coma on his arrival, which required an immediate neurosurgical operation", the hospital in the south-east French city of Grenoble said in a statement.

"He remains in a critical condition."

Schumacher had been skiing off-piste in the upmarket Meribel resort, where he reportedly has a property, when he fell and hit his head on a rock, mountain police who gave him first aid said.

He was airlifted to a local hospital, then to the Grenoble facility. A specialist neurosurgeon from Paris was rushed in to oversee his treatment.

The director of the Meribel resort Christophe Gernigon-Lecomte had said just after the accident that Schumacher had been wearing a helmet and was "conscious but a little agitated" just after the accident, suggesting he had not received life-threatening injuries.

But when Schumacher then fell into coma, doctors realised the damage was worse than initially feared.

The two mountain police officers who gave first aid said Schumacher was suffering "severe cranial trauma" when they got to him and a helicopter was brought in to evacuate him within 10 minutes.

A renowned Paris neurosurgeon, Dr Gerard Saillant, was brought to the Grenoble hospital in a police car to take charge of the famous patient.

The hospital statement was signed by the facility's neurosurgeon, the professor in charge of its anaesthesia/revival unit, and the hospital's deputy director. It was issued jointly with the former racer’s press team in Germany.

The next update on Schumacher’s condition would be given at 10.00am GMT on Monday, a hospital spokesman said. Police were stationed to guard the hospital’s entrances.

Schumacher, who lives with his family in Switzerland, was on a private stay in Meribel, according to his spokesman. He was reportedly skiing with his 14-year-old son at the time of the accident.

He is to have his 45th birthday next Friday.

Schumacher, who won the last of his world titles in 2004, definitively retired in 2012 in the Brazilian Grand Prix, in which he finished seventh, after an abandoned attempt to quit six years earlier.

Since his debut in 1991, the German towered over the sport, winning more Formula One world titles and races than any other. He had a record 91 wins and is one of only two men to reach 300 grands prix.

Schumacher's duels in his heyday with Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve, fired by an unquenchable competitive spirit, have gone down in Formula One lore.

Schumacher was born in January 1969 near Cologne, Germany, the son of a bricklayer who also ran the local go-kart track, where his mother worked in the canteen.

By 1987, Schumacher was the German and European go-kart champion and was soon racing professionally. In 1991 he burst into Formula One by qualifying seventh in his debut race in Belgium and a year later he was racing for Benetton, where he won his first Formula One grand prix in 1992.

After joining Ferrari in 1996, Schumacher achieved infamy by trying to ram Villeneuve off the road at Jerez in the last race of 1997, and was disqualified from the championship as punishment.

Over the next decade, he went from strength to strength, dominating the podium, before trying to retire the first time aged 37.

But the father of two could not resist the lure of the track and in 2010 he signed a three-year deal with Mercedes.

But slower reflexes and a less competitive car meant Schumacher could not reproduce his former glory and he quit for good in 2012. His helmet had a message for fans: "Life is about passions - Thank you for sharing mine."

Hope he would be alright, he is good in driving but not in skiing, never had fatal car accident but had fatal ski accident

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