Michael Schumacher in critical condition after ski Accident

[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."


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[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.

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?

[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.