Michael Schumacher Injured

[SteveB]

F1 champion Michael Schumacher critical after ski fall

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25545993

[SteveB]

F1 champion Michael Schumacher critical after ski fall

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25545993

http://news.sky.com/story/1188296/mi...ical-condition

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlin.../12/15358.html

(from F1 website) "A statement issued by the hospital in which Schumacher is being treated said he had suffered "a severe head injury with coma on arrival, which required neurosurgical intervention immediately."

[HighFlyer]

I really hope he makes a full recovery. A gentleman if ever there was one.

[ocred]

Fuckin hell he seems to be in a bad way after all. Hope he pulls through

[funlover12]

I really hope he makes a full recovery. A gentleman if ever there was one.

lol Im guessing you know nothing about F1 then

[sharkskin]

I really hope he makes a full recovery. A gentleman if ever there was one.

He achieved a lot and I certainly wish him the fullest recovery possible but to call him a gentleman means ignoring many things that marked him out as amongst the most ungentlemanly F1 drivers of all time.

Intentionally driving into a rival when his own championship chances were blown unless he could force the other to retire. Twice.

Driving a car that was proven to have illegal traction control.

Having a pretend accident at the end of Monaco qualifying in order to prevent other drivers from completing their laps.

Refusing to help his team mate when that team mate was in with a real chance of winning the F1 championship in a season in which he himself was out of contention.

None of those are the acts of a gentleman.

[funlover12]

He achieved a lot and I certainly wish him the fullest recovery possible but to call him a gentleman means ignoring many things that marked him out as amongst the most ungentlemanly F1 drivers of all time.

Intentionally driving into a rival when his own championship chances were blown unless he could force the other to retire. Twice.

Driving a car that was proven to have illegal traction control.

Having a pretend accident at the end of Monaco qualifying in order to prevent other drivers from completing their laps.

Refusing to help his team mate when that team mate was in with a real chance of winning the F1 championship in a season in which he himself was out of contention.

None of those are the acts of a gentleman.

the guy is a nutcase with talent, absolute psychopath, but hey they are the kind of people that win a record amount of chamionships. great at self satisfaction, shit at normal things in life

[sharkskin]

German press reports that he has a cerebral haemorrhage and has had a second operation overnight.

[Clyde]

Since the news broke yesterday about the accident I've been gutted I'm a huge fan of Schumacher I watched all his races ever since he joined Jordan. It's true he was flawed but so were most of the greats like Senna, Lauda, Prost and even Vittel it's the winning blood. You could see it when he won a rase the leap on the podium he would work through the night with his team to find that extra tenth of a second, he always made sure he celebrated with his crew afterwards and paid for everything but he was a bit of a bore and always left early to be sure he could train properly in the morning. I truly hope one of my all time heroes pulls through.

[SteveB]

I remember a storey about a famous runner who at the height of his fame visited a junior athletics meeting. He was there as a celebrity not to compete because he was well out of their league.
Just for fun he took part in a demonstration race. At the start of the race he hit one of the competitors a severe blow in the ribs with his elbow. Competitive instinct, for the guy was known to be a gentleman.

Also, Rocky Marciano was known as a complete gentleman, yet in the ring he changed completely, and could be a very ‘dirty’ fighter.

The way a competitive sportsman thinks..

List could go on…