Exactly 12 years ago, the legendary Michael Schumacher suffered a skiing accident that completely changed his life, and very little has been known about his health condition for more than a decade.
Schumacher fell while skiing on December 29th, 2013, in the French Alps, more precisely in Meribel, and suffered a head injury.
The slope was inadequate, but Schumacher had been skiing there for years and nevertheless decided to make the descent. However, he hit a rock and lost his balance, striking his head against another rock.
Although he was wearing a helmet, he sustained severe injuries, and the emergency medical staff who provided assistance also failed, as they made an incorrect assessment.
Namely, Schumacher appeared conscious to them, so they decided to transfer him to a small clinic in Moutiers. However, during the helicopter flight, Schumacher’s condition worsened, he lost consciousness, and doctors then decided to redirect the helicopter to Grenoble, to a much better-equipped clinic, during which valuable minutes were lost that might have meant a great deal.
Immediately upon arrival at the hospital in Grenoble, he underwent surgery and was placed in an induced coma, after which he was transferred from the intensive care unit to a rehabilitation ward. In June 2014, he was moved from Grenoble to the University Hospital in Lausanne.
In September of the same year, he arrived at his home in the Swiss town of Gland, on the shores of Lake Geneva, and since then, the media have only speculated about his health condition, while the family has given only brief statements.
According to what his wife Corinne, manager Sabine Kehm, brother Ralf, and son Mick have said over the past years, Schumacher is alive and conscious, but he cannot communicate with them.
Also, according to all available information, it can be concluded that the legendary German is immobile. It is difficult to predict whether Schumacher, who will celebrate his 57th birthday in a few days, will ever recover.
During his career, Schumacher won seven world championship titles and 91 victories, and many consider him the greatest in history.
He won his first two championship titles with Benetton (1994 and 1995), and from 2000 until the end of 2004, Schumacher won five consecutive titles in a Ferrari car. After retiring temporarily in 2006, he returned to Formula 1 and drove for Mercedes for three years.
He competed in 308 Grand Prix races and stood on the podium 155 times.
The seven-time Formula 1 world champion also has a special connection with Sarajevo. He first came to the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in 1996, and again in December the following year.
He arrived under the organization of HOPE and UNICEF to visit children injured during the war at Kosevo Hospital. The purpose of his visit was part of a UNESCO project to raise funds for a specialized hospital for Sarajevo children, victims of shelling and landmines.
Because of all this, the Canton Sarajevo (CS) Assembly made a decision to rename the A Transversal, in the area of the municipality of Novi Grad – local communities “Dobrinja A” and “Saraj-Polje,” to A Transversal “Michael Schumacher,” thus paying tribute to everything the legendary German did for the capital of BiH.
