Michael Schumacher in critical condition after ski Accident

[RagaZ]

Damn, hope he pulls through.

[gts]

Link to the coma.. All I've seen is he hit his head but it wasn't life threatening and he was conscious

[CelticBaller]

Link to the coma.. All I've seen is he hit his head but it wasn't life threatening and he was conscious
that was what they first reported, apparently he fell into critical condition

[chips93]

Link to the coma.. All I've seen is he hit his head but it wasn't life threatening and he was conscious

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/29/sport/motorsport/michael-schumacher-skiing-f1-motorsport/index.html

[knickballer]

Ski is freaking dangerous. Tried it once and it almost hurt me bad.

Hope for the best.

This. Tried snowboarding once and was on my ass the whole time. I can't believe there are people who slide down the mountain at ski resorts.. Looks scary as shit.

[b1imtf]

Damn.. :(

[gts]

that was what they first reported, apparently he fell into critical condition
yeah thanks for the links guys, here's a link from his management group statement http://www.jenniegow.co.uk/schumacher-hurt-in-ski-accident/

[I]This is the latest statement I have been sent from his management team

[BGriffin's Dad]

who?

[macmac]

who?

The richest sportsman in the world after tigers divorce?

Makes you look pretty fkin stupid

[ukballer]

As a huge Formula One fan, this is just terrible news to hear. :(

[Raymone]

Michael Schumacher

Umm... who?

[gts]

Reading tweets from the F1 crowd, lot's of tweets concerning people like Ross Brawn and other F1 folks showing up at the hospital... Middle of the night there... Hope they're there to say get well and not goodbye

[Genaro]

I used to see races just to watch him. Wish him the best.

[Dresta]

Even Schumacher's wearing a helmet these days, damn. Gonna be the last person on the slopes not wearing one soon lol.

[CP3MVP]

Never heard of him, but sorry to hear that. It's crazy that it used to be commonplace to ski without helmets all the time.

[red1]

Even Schumacher's wearing a helmet these days, damn. Gonna be the last person on the slopes not wearing one soon lol.
What the hell is wrong with you guy. First you argue with anyone who says that cigs are harmful and now you reveal that you go skiiing without a helmet. Are you suicidal?

[Dresta]

What the hell is wrong with you guy. First you argue with anyone who says that cigs are harmful and now you reveal that you go skiiing without a helmet. Are you suicidal?
When i started skiing hardly anyone bothered with a helmet. I've skied since the age of 5. Can ski most mountains comfortably and have worn a helmet maybe 3-4 times (it is shit). Never had an injury skiing in spite of this and love tree skiing as well.

:pimp:

[CeltsGarlic]

Umm I also ski without helmet.. Almost no one uses it anyways. Its not like Im going full speed on 65-degree slope. Im about that class.

[9erempiree]

This is very sad and I hope he makes it.

Is so hard to believe because as a race driver it's very dangerous and for Michael to escape the dangers of racing, only to be hurt so badly in a leisurely activity.

Thoughts and prayers with him.

[chips93]

ive barely seen any adults skiing with helmets

its probably an american thing

[Trollsmasher]

I ski without a helmet too. But well, I do not go off-piste.

Only used it once or twice and I have to admit that it saved my life (although I would not probably go full retard without it).

[BasedTom]

Terrible news

[Scholar]

:(
Hope for the best.

[K]

Schumi is not going to go out like that. He's going to survive.

Let's go Schumi!

:applause:

[gts]

Coma was induced after surgery, not because of the actual injury itself if there's a huge difference...

[I]According to a statement this evening from the hospital in Grenoble where he is being treated, the German is in a

[DuMa]

terrible news. although i am surprised someone of schumi's class and smarts gets into these accidents on the slopes.

[gts]

Reading he's had a second operation...

[moaz]

Never heard of him, but sorry to hear that. It's crazy that it used to be commonplace to ski without helmets all the time.
(not against you CP3MVP, your post is a decent one)

If you tell poster here that there are peoble in the world who don't know who Lebron/Kobe are (or even worse: MJ), they freak out and wouldn't believe you.

But not knowing the greatest F1 driver in the last 20 years ....

Topic: Although I've never liked him as a driver/person, I wish him good recovery and my thaughts is with his family and all his fans.

[tomtucker]

you love speed.......sooner or later you will die

[Raymone]

If you tell poster here that there are peoble in the world who don't know who Lebron/Kobe are (or even worse: MJ), they freak out and wouldn't believe you.

But not knowing the greatest F1 driver in the last 20 years ....

One sport is basketball, the other is car racing. Very few people watch or care about car racing. F1 or NASCAR.

[alenleomessi]

One sport is basketball, the other is car racing. Very few people watch or care about car racing. F1 or NASCAR.
dude schumacher is one of the most recognizable name EVER

[jstern]

When I went skiing, the boot broke my leg in half. The bones, not the whole leg. Like Anderson Silva.

After analyzing it, if you ever fall, get into the fetal position. Like a ball, you're less likely to break anything.

[b1imtf]

dude schumacher is one of the most recognizable name EVER
I'm surprised with the amount of people that don't know him

[gts]

A leading neurosurgery specialist has described Michael Schumacher's condition as "very dangerous" and warned his injuries may take several days to "reach their peak".

Christopher Chandler, of the London Neurosurgery Partnership, told the Press Association the haematoma and bruising Schumacher suffered could cause "ferocious swelling.

"An intra-cranial haematoma is a blood clot, which causes swelling and pressure on the brain," he said. "The scenario may be that he had a blood clot in his brain that required immediate removal, which would explain the surgery.

"By bilateral lesions, I suspect they mean contusions or bruising to the brain. That bruising of the brain, which you can see on a scan, causes ferocious swelling and that is really serious. [Cerebral] contusions are often the most significant injury. Once you remove the clot, the swelling carries on and bruising precipitates and propagates that swelling.

"If you have a brain injury with sufficient severity to cause a coma, that indicates a very serious situation. The longer a patient is in a coma, the less likely they are to make a full recovery. You can't say that they won't recover, and you can't say they won't be brain-damaged, but an injury such as bilateral bruising, which means on both sides of the brain, is very serious, and can be very dangerous.

"Brain swelling takes a number of days to reach its peak. The brain has a rigid unyielding box around it - the skull - which allows no room for growth, making swelling very, very dangerous. And once that injury occurs it's a vicious circle where a little bit of swelling causes more pressure, which causes more swelling, more pressure, and it starts to accelerate and affect vital parts of the brain.

"When that happens, you are in really deep trouble, but this man received probably the best possible care that you could imagine in the circumstances.

"He had the brain injury and within minutes a team of medics were there and they airlifted him to hospital. Within half an hour he was assessed and being flown to the neurological unit in Grenoble."


Read more at http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/140599.html#rRTx6lPHZzbFiYbZ.99

[Raymone]

dude schumacher is one of the most recognizable name EVER

No, he isn't. Comparing his name recognition to someone like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods, Tom Brady, David Beckham, or even Roger Federer... is laughable.

[ukballer]

No, he isn't. Comparing his name recognition to someone like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods, Tom Brady, David Beckham, or even Roger Federer... is laughable.

Just stop embarrassing yourself. Not that you will. I can guarantee you that Michael Schumacher is much more well known around the world than Tom Brady.

Damn trolls even have to ruin these type of threads.

[Le Shaqtus]

No, he isn't. Comparing his name recognition to someone like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods, Tom Brady, David Beckham, or even Roger Federer... is laughable.

:facepalm

No shame, your mother should have swallowed you.

[dr.hee]

No, he isn't. Comparing his name recognition to someone like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods, Tom Brady, David Beckham, or even Roger Federer... is laughable.

You mother is recognized by even more men though...

[Andrew Wiggins]

You mother is recognized by even more men though...

so because he has an inaccurate and misconstrued view of an athlete's popularity, that prompts you to insult his mother?

:biggums:

:facepalm

[moaz]

No, he isn't. Comparing his name recognition to someone like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods, Tom Brady, David Beckham, or even Roger Federer... is laughable.

@ Raymone
I've lived in many countries in the world in the last 25 years and im talking about 4 contenints here. I'm a universal sports fan so i could talk to almost anyone about any sport.

If I would rank the names u listed in recognition (outside USA):

David Beckham
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Micahel Schumacher
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MJ, Tiger
Kobe, (insert the current NBA superstar here)
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(to safe space, multiply the dots with 100)
Tom Brady (I am sure that even almost 98% of sports journalists outside the usa wont recognize him).

[Andrew Wiggins]

@ Raymone
I've lived in many countries in the world in the last 25 years and im talking about 4 contenints here. I'm a universal sports fan so i could talk to almost anyone about any sport.

If I would rank the names u listen in recognition (outside USA):

David Beckham
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Micahel Schumacher
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MJ, Tiger
Kobe, (insert the current NBA superstar here)
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(do safe space, multiply the dots with 100)
Tom Brady (I am sure that almost 98% of sports journalists outside the use wont recognize him).

as have i. this is not true from my experience. jordan and tiger woods are more recognized than schumacher, as is kobe most likely due to his immense popularity in countries like china and the philippines

[Raymone]

You guys are overestimating the popularity of car racing to hilarious levels. Nobody watches that shit.

[RagaZ]

And nobody watches Golf or Baseball(only yanks).

[alenleomessi]

You guys are overestimating the popularity of car racing to hilarious levels. Nobody watches that shit.
dude you just said tom brady is a more recognizable name than schumacher.. just help everyone around you and hang yourself.

[Raymone]

And nobody watches Golf or Baseball(only yanks).

Agreed on baseball and to a lesser extent on golf, although Woods still has more name recognition as a sports figure. Extremely well-paid and well-known. Nike throws mountains of cash at him to wear their shit, they don't throw it to some helmeted race car driver in some foreign racing league.

I bet the ratio of MLB/PGA viewers to U.S. total population is far greater than the ratio of F1 viewers to world population though. Far, far greater.

[moaz]

as have i. this is not true from my experience. jordan and tiger woods are more recognized than schumacher, as is kobe most likely due to his immense popularity in countries like china and the philippines

I haven't lived in East Asia (but many work connection to Japan) so maybe I'm wrong there. I could always talk about F1 with the Japanese (I couldn't talk about baseball) and the majority was well informed.

I lived in the middle east and black Africa. No one knew who tiger is, but they all are car crazy. Mj is an other category. in his time you could watch NBA in public TV in many countries around the world, and you always have a at leats 10-15% bball fans in any country.

[Raymone]

retardedly big ass image

:confusedshrug: :biggums: :coleman: :facepalm

Yeah, the entire redneck and white trash population of the U.S. is temporarily drained on race days so they can congregate around a track and engage in alcohol poisoning. Fortunately, they make up a relatively small portion of the country.

[kNicKz]

You guys are overestimating the popularity of car racing to hilarious levels. Nobody watches that shit.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/nascar-on-fox-2013-highest-rated-most-watched-sport-in-season-13th-straight-season-060713


NASCAR on FOX concluded its 2013 portion of the season as the highest-rated and most-watched sport in-season for the 13th straight season, according to figures released today by Nielsen Media Research. The complete 2013 NASCAR on FOX Sprint Cup season averaged a potent 4.8/10 household rating/share for the third time in four years (2010, 2012 & 2013).

It would appear that you are wrong

[brantonli]

You guys are overestimating the popularity of car racing to hilarious levels. Nobody watches that shit.


I've never watched an F1 race, a golf tournament, or even a tennis match in my entire life, but I know who Michael Schumaker, Tiger Woods and Roger Federer are. When you get to that level of superstardom in your sport, it's almost irrelevant how many people watch it, and more of a how good the marketing is of that person.

[red1]

raymone sonning himself :roll:

[red1]

do he really make shoes doe?

[Overdrive]

I haven't lived in East Asia (but many work connection to Japan) so maybe I'm wrong there. I could always talk about F1 with the Japanese (I couldn't talk about baseball) and the majority was well informed.

Racing is huge in Japan, and by that the premier racing league is well known. Most years some Japanese drivers participate.



I bet the ratio of MLB/PGA viewers to U.S. total population is far greater than the ratio of F1 viewers to world population though. Far, far greater.

The accessibility of TV is at minimum 90% in the US. I guess worlwide it's about 10-20% so ofc something that runs on US TV will have proportionally more exposure than anything worldwide.

I hope Schumi fully recovers, great driver and by most accounts an awesome guy.

[PieceOfFelt]

And nobody watches Golf or Baseball(only yanks).

Only Yanks watch Golf? Perhaps the stupidest statement in this entire thread.

[-p.tiddy-]

Damn just now hearing about this

I'm skiing right now in Tahoe

Been skiing here past 4 days

I need to be careful I guess

[Brunch@Five]

No, he isn't. Comparing his name recognition to someone like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods, Tom Brady, David Beckham, or even Roger Federer... is laughable.

:oldlol: :oldlol: I bet you that less than 10% of the non-American population know him.

In his prime (2000-2006) Schumacher was indeed among the best-known persons world-wide. Him and Tiger Woods were racing head-to-head to become the first athlete-billionaire.

[Frozen1]

LOL @ that guy talking about tom brady being a well known guy.

In Brasil for example, he is known as the Gisele B

[alenleomessi]

there is a 'slight improvement' after the second operation

[gts]

there is a 'slight improvement' after the second operation


Yeah read that... Finally got the swelling down in one spot enough to go in and relive the swelling in another spot

Also read an account of what happened, freak accident. He had stopped to help another skier in his group that had fallen, he had just took off made a turn hit a rock that sent him head over heels and his head hit another rock..

one person said he couldn't have been going faster than 10kph

[Le Shaqtus]

He still got screwed up even with the helmet on, imagine what he would have looked like if he wasn't wearing one :(

[b1imtf]

He still got screwed up even with the helmet on, imagine what he would have looked like if he wasn't wearing one :(
The helmet broke in two pieces.. :(
I read that he has made slight improvements

[gts]

He still got screwed up even with the helmet on, imagine what he would have looked like if he wasn't wearing one :(

Looking at pics of Schumacher skiing he always wore a helmet meant for ski racing which is designed for skiing on groomed slopes where the possibility of hitting something like a rock is minimal at best. The helmet is designed for protecting the head from things like the gates on a course or getting whacked by your own ski or ski pole in a crash. The helmets are very lightly padded and extremely form fitting.

Kind of like the difference between a helmet meant for motorcycle riding vs. auto racing, outwardly they look the same but one is made for sliding down the road and being hit from multiple angles vs being strapped in your seat and your head repeatedly hitting the same object like the roll over structure over and over again

[Raymone]

Start typing their names into Google. Let's see how many letters each one takes to show up on autofill.

kobe bryant (2 characters)
tiger woods (3 characters)
lebron james (3 characters)
tom brady (3 characters)
michael schumacher (9 characters)

[Raymone]

mapquest
maps
msn
macy's
miley cyrus
minecraft
michaels
microsoft
michael kors
michaels coupon
michael j fox
michael jordan
michael jackson
michael strahan
michael schumacher
michael sheen
michael shannon

There he is! Right after this guy.

http://i.imgur.com/ZJly7of.jpg

[Dresta]

Tom Brady better known than Schumacher?

:facepalm

[tpols]

Start typing their names into Google. Let's see how many letters each one takes to show up on autofill.

kobe bryant (2 characters)
tiger woods (3 characters)
lebron james (3 characters)
tom brady (3 characters)
michael schumacher (9 characters)
That's because names like Kobe tiger and Lebron are way more unique than Michael.. :facepalm

[ace23]

That's because names like Kobe tiger and Lebron are way more unique than Michael.. :facepalm
It's a meaningless stat anyway. It took 4 characters for Barack Obama to show up.

[gts]

It's a meaningless stat anyway. It took 4 characters for Barack Obama to show up.And unless he cleared his cookies the first hits are going to be what he searches for the most..

i'm worried Michael Kors showed up for him at all

[bladefd]

Why are you fools arguing who is better known?? What diff does it make? He is the most famous driver ever..

Schumacher is slightly odd dude, a private guy that stays away from the lights. He was on Top Gear couple times, dry humor & not very charismatic but pretty good guy. I never watched him race live (I've no patience for watching car races) so I'm not his fan or anything, but damn, a coma.. Hopefully he gets better

[red1]

Start typing their names into Google. Let's see how many letters each one takes to show up on autofill.

kobe bryant (2 characters)
tiger woods (3 characters)
lebron james (3 characters)
tom brady (3 characters)
michael schumacher (9 characters)
wow you are dumb

[ace23]

[QUOTE=Frozen1]LOL @ that guy talking about tom brady being a well known guy.

In Brasil for example, he is known as the Gisele B

[kNicKz]

Watching Raymone ether himself is somewhat entertaining

He compared searching for the name "Lebron" to the name "Michael" to try and prove a point. Let's all take a step back for a moment and appreciate that

:roll: :roll: :roll:

[no pun intended]

He's reportedly stable now.

[RagaZ]

He's reportedly stable now.
Link?

[no pun intended]

Link?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-schumacher-remains-stable-in-french-hospital/

"remains stable" my bad

[RagaZ]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29130742

Michael Schumacher leaves hospital for recovery at home.

[DukeDelonte13]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29130742

Michael Schumacher leaves hospital for recovery at home.


WTF, some dude tried to sell his med records to the press and hung himself over it?