7 years ago: Michael Schumacher's fatal skiing accident

Michael Schumacher, according to radio station Europe 1, suffered a concussion in a skiing accident in the French Alps. Radio Monte Carlo quoted Christophe Gernignon-Lecomte, the director of the Meribel ski station, as confirming that the record Formula 1 world champion had been flown by helicopter to a hospital for safety.

A few hours later, the fear for the German Formula 1 idol grew almost by the minute. Late in the evening of the same day it was clear: Michael Schumacher was fighting for his life. According to an official statement, he suffered “head trauma with coma during the serious fall, which required immediate neurosurgical treatment.” Schumacher lives isolated from the public Even 7 years later, this moment when concern became bitter certainty is still difficult to grasp. The life-threatening severity of Schumacher's skiing accident hit the motorsport world to its core. The difficult path of the 91-time Grand Prix winner is still accompanied by wild speculation about his condition, but also by good wishes and emotional memories. Mick Schumacher will soon be following in his father's footsteps: from next season he will be racing in Formula 1. © AFP / ANDREJ ISAKOVIC

What the public knows is quickly told. Schumacher has been receiving treatment at home since September 2014 after a severe traumatic brain injury, several operations and waking up from an induced coma. The interest in the condition of the man who led Formula 1 in Germany to unimagined heights continues to be enormous - and is repeatedly exploited for the big headlines.

Michael Schumacher himself should remain as unmolested as possible, for his own well-being and that of his family. Despite this, or perhaps precisely because of this, interest in the tragic fate of the sports icon remains unbroken. The fate of the man who survived more than 300 Formula 1 races without any really serious accidents. And then, while relaxing skiing with family and friends, he fell so badly that his life was divided into a before and an after.

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7 years ago: Michael Schumacher's fatal skiing accident

The very first reports in the early afternoon of December 29, 2013 did not cause undue concern. But it turned out quite differently.

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