The Michael Schumacher Career/Injury/Recovery Thread

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If they know when the injury occured and start treatment within a couple of hours, they can administer clot busters to prevent that being an issue, at least in stroke victims. Shouldn't be a big issue here. However, at this point it's not a question of whether there is brain damage, it's a question of how much. With the speed of response, hopefuly it's not extensive but the muscle spasms and loss of consciousness so soon after injury don't bode well at all imo.

 

Thx florian: need to renew my subscription....

 

Looks as if the ski piste splits there and the area with the rocks seperates the parts. There are other tracks between the rocks, I wonder who voluntarily skis through there?!
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I've reported the page. ****ing *******s.


I've read of several people saying they're going to put their signed memorabilia on ebay as soon as he's dead. Absolutely disgusting.

 

that was a mine field to ski!

 

That looks pretty tame by Western United States standards. I saw him in Monterey last year and the two things that stuck me were how small he was and how athletic he looked. very similar to Lance Armstrong. I hope he has a fast recovery.

 

sad but I cannot help myself from wondering which ski tracks belong to MS.

 

Like everyone else I have not been able to focus much at home or at work since hearing of this news.

Same feelings I had that horrible weekend in 1994 although the waiting was much less then.

All I keep thinking is if anyone could survive something like this it would be MS given the insane level of physical conditioning he always mainitained and obviously he has the best of the best attending to him. Modern medical technologies, processes and talent can pull off miracles.

Like most I have a feeling of helplessness yet (silly I know) somehow feel "close" to MS - probably just due to idolizing him and feeling like somehow I was a distant part of his victories every time I donned my Scuderia hat and annoyed my GF by blasting F1 races through my TV at all hours of the night and "popping the cork" on mini-Pellagrinos before heading off to work after an MS victory.

All most of us can do is send positive thoughts and remember that each day is a gift regardless of who you are.

Forza Michael

 

Not at all what I had assumed after reading the reports. I thought he went off the back of a mountain and was doing big cliff skiing or something like that. Reports did say "Extreme skiing". It doesnt look like he could have been traveling very fast through the rocks. However, as a once serious skier, I know pictures of slopes can be misleading.

Its all so damn sad. He was very kind to my wife and me when we met him at a dinner in Monza. I bought him a bottle of wine and still have the receipt. He was so thankful he stopped us in the bar on the way out and chatted for a while. He even let us take our pictures with him before he was off to the hospital to see Ralf who was burnt in an accident that day.

 

Probably none of those, Pete....the mountain changes every day.

The danger of those rocks (hard to see from up mountain) is the softening of snow around them when they warm in the sun. Trees do the same thing, and make deep wells of void in the snow pack, you can trip right into them. (..and maybe sprain both thumbs at the same time, in my case)..

That is certainly not "off piste skiing" which in Europe is almost an entirely different sport than a North American resort experience.

I sure hope he pulls through, just to live his life.

Terrible irony in his retirement, to enjoy his time.
Thinking of his children and wife also.

Thanks, Bas for your attack on that FB page.

 

Lacking fresh snow, you seek those routes to get the 'float" of powder skiing, those trails are hard packed base, and even icy early in the day.

Salvaging a 'no snow" day, basically.

 

Awesome story - post those photos please!

 

We don't see much but it looks like the helicopter was able to park relatively close to the crash site so the delay in getting him to care may have been quick.

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That was 2004 and im not sure if that was with a digital format or film. It took my wife (with a photography degree from R.I.T) a long time to be satisfied with digital. I may see if she has time tonight to look back and see if they are digital pics that can be uploaded here.

 

Typical Facebook rubbish for you which is why I deactivated my account last year. But even at that, I can't believe they're even allowing that... but wait... yes I can.

Nothing is sacred or hallowed on Facebook except for unrestrained tabloid-like social media banter. Someone should contact the Admin and file a complaint as that page is spam and entirely disrespectful. What ass!holes they are.

 

Is that what they are calling unmarked ski area? Looks like its a normal ski run. From looks of it, he caught an edge and fell. In result hitting his head on the rock. Far from extreme skiing.

 

Ditto, not what I expected at all from the reports - he wasn't off-piste, he was on the edge of a normal run, and not a very steep run at that. As someone else pointed out, those rocks are no big deal either, plenty of skiers will deliberately ski through those to find softer or untracked snow. That type of terrain is routinely skied here in Western Canada, and by the looks of it in Europe as well. Just from the location, I'd say MS was doing nothing unusual or risky as far as that location or terrain goes. It could be as simple as catching an edge with a bit of speed and falling just coincidentally where a rock was protruding from the snow.

Qualifier - I was on the ski patrol at Lake Louise in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies for 15 years. There's nothing unusual or particularly dangerous about that terrain shown in the photos, including the rocks. Mountains have rocks all over them. There was a quote in one news report from a representative of Meribel saying something along the lines of "This is a good example of why people should stick to the groomed runs and not ski off-piste". What an idiot, whoever made that statement should be fired - not just for being rude and insensitive, but for not even knowing what he was talking about with respect to where Schumacher was skiing.

Looking at the ski tracks (assuming those pictures were taken the same day as the accident), there's no sign that the rescue tobaggan was in that rocky area, only on the edge of the ski run beside the rocks, so Schumacher wouldn't have been in the rocky area either. The snow marks from a ski patrol work scene around an accident victim is pretty extensive and obvious.

 

Even good old Billy Clinton has come to twitter and offered his prayers.

That's cool.

 

I would have skied through the rocks to catch some of the powder, particularly when I was in my "indestructible" 20s. It doesn't look like he was doing anything too risky to me.

 

Thanks for that. This really got to me, for some reason...

https://twitter.com/billclinton

 

likewise...just read that.

 

What a sad way to end this year and start a new one.

I don't feel like going to any New Years celebration anymore

 

Here's to a quick recovery.

 

Agree.

Couldn't care less about the 2014 season either...