11 years have passed since the terrible day, December 29, 2013, of Michael Schumacher’s skiing accident while he was skiing on the snow of Meribel. In the meantime, life goes on: Corinna fights in court, Gina Maria is getting married and will be a mother, Mick awaits new challenges after F1
The date is a sad anniversary between Christmas and New Year which every year saddens athletes and F1 fans from all over the world. The December 29, 2024they recur 11 years from the tragic accident of Michael Schumacher. Since that day on the snows of Meribel in France, the news about Schumi’s health has disappeared in a deafening silence broken only by some sporadic inferences. But life went on around the Ferrari champion. Especially in this one 2024 time frame in which more news about German appeared.
Facts, information, events often, almost always not necessarily linked to his person, about which nothing has been known for some time. But which concern the life of the circle of people around him, especially his family: his wife Corinna who carries out his foundation and who fights in court against blackmail and the leak of documents, photos and news; the daughter Gina Maria that this year she got married and announced that she was pregnant with what will be Schumi’s grandson; and then his son’s farewell to F1, for now Mick Schumacher.
Michael Schumacher: that damned December 29th eleven years ago
Sunday December 29, 2013. A day like many others, passing from Christmas to New Year. And instead destined to remain in the history of F1, motor racing, motorsport, sport and even something more. Michael Schumacher’s fall on the snows of Meribel it will change the course of his life and to a small extent of all those who love him, who venerate him, who recognize his myth which has become legend on tracks all over the world.
From that day on, nothing was the same for Michael Schumacher. And for his family. An ordeal that became serene resignation through 10 years of prayers, hopes, anguish within a family tragedy which, given the depth of the character, could not fail to have a worldwide echo like those 7 titles that delivered Schumi to the immortality of sports heroes.
That same sometimes morbid attention to the physical, mental and aesthetic conditions of Schumacher which over the years has transformed into the request for a rigor and a silence which over time has become deafening on the one hand and almost mystical on the other. Eleven years have passed, but the pain feels so current, just like those images in all of us’s heads Schumi in triumph.
The accident in the Meribel snows
It was just after 11am on 29 December 2013. Schumacher with his son Mick, 14 years old at the time, was skiing on the slopes of Meribel. Off-piste to be precise, something he loved to do, in the freshest snow. Schumi falls, it’s 11.07 and hits his head on a stone. He was just going from one beaten track to another crossing a short, but fatal, stretch of ungroomed snow that hid the rocks against which he hit first his skis and then his head and against which his helmet broke. Michael gets hurt, very bad. We need help and it arrives quite quickly. The German Kaiser is hoisted up and taken to hospital in nearby Moutiers.
Immediately afterwards Schumi underwent head surgery for the first time, his condition remained critical, perhaps will remain so forever, certainly the coma, the pharmacologically induced one, will remain for a long time. After the accident, Schumacher remained in Grenoble for a long time, from where he was discharged in June 2014 to begin a rehabilitation phase at a specialized clinic in Lausanne from which the champion was then transferred to his villa in September Gland properly equipped by his wife Corinna to allow her husband to receive assistance monitored 24 hours a day by at least 15 people including doctors, masseurs and nurses.
Since then, Schumacher resides in his home overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland. He is cared for by his wife Corinna and a medical team, but very little is known about his condition and the family has released almost no details over the past 10 years.
Source: ANSA 
Schumacher: Corinna’s silence, blackmail and the trial
There’s no point in going around it. On Schumacher nothing has been known for several years. If in the days immediately following the Meribel accident there were several communications, official and not with many leaks, as time passed the family’s choice to maintain silence, Corinna and children Gina Maria e Mickhas effectively “obscured” any update on Schumi’s condition.
But the desire to be able to get hold of news, photos and anything else relating to Schumacher’s condition and health led a gang of people who gravitated around the champion to blackmail the family. The former bodyguard Markus Fritsche allegedly stole something like over 1,500 confidential family files which were archived on four USB devices and two hard drives and which Markus allegedly took out of Schumacher’s villa when he realized he was going to be fired.
Fritschetogether with the security guard Yilmaz Tozturkan and to his son Daniel Linsthey asked the Schumacher family 15 million euros in exchange for not making all those files public on the dark internet. Even one of the nurses who look after Michael, would be involved. It seems that this woman is one of the people suspected of having leaked information for blackmail and her whereabouts are currently unknown.
Schumacher’s family filed a civil action. The former champion’s wife, Corinna Schumacher, filed for co-procedure to protect her husband. Lawyers defending the interests of the Schumacher family can ask that the public be excluded from the hearing and that the material remain classified during the trial.
The marriage and pregnancy of his daughter Gina Maria
2024 has been an eventful year in the Schumacher household. Michael’s daughter Gina Maria married Ian Bethke. The two, who met while frequenting the same world of horse riding, their great passion which over time later became a job, were engaged for 7 years; She’s 27, he’s 28.
The couple said “I do” under an arch of flowers in a highly armored wedding in a family villa in Palma de Mallorca, on the hills of Port d’Andratx. The guests and all the workers and collaborators who had access to the villa on the day of the wedding and the previous ones were prohibited from using cell phones, smartphones and anything else. It is not known whether Michael was there. Even if the villa is equipped with a helipad. There was Gina’s brother, Mick, the third Mercedes driver desperately looking for a seat in F1, with his girlfriend Laila Hasanovic; the uncle Ralf SchumacherSchumi’s brother, with partner Etienne Bosquet-Cassagne.
In the days following the wedding of Gina Maria Schumacher con Iain Bethke There have been rumors, especially in the German media, of the possible, for some probable, for others certain, presence of Michael Schumacher at his daughter’s wedding. If that had really been the case, however, it would have been about the first public appearance for 11 years to this part.
To extinguish any enthusiasm about the real possibility that Michael Schumacher was presentone way or another, in that ceremony, he thought about it Jussi Postihead of neurosurgery and traumatic brain injury at Turku University Hospital in Finland, in a statement to the newspaper Evening newspaper, the neurosurgeon ruled it out almost absolutely that Schumacher’s condition after the skiing accident of 2013could even allow him to undertake such a complex journey to Spain from Switzerland, where he has lived since he was discharged from the health facilities following the accident.
News from just the last few days: Gina Schumacher and husband Ian Bethke they announced they were waiting for one female, who knows if he will inherit the passion for engines that is definitely at home. To announce the happy event, the Kaiser’s daughter chose to post a photograph with a pony and lots of pink balloonsarousing strong emotion among all the fans who have never forgotten the great love for the father and in general for the events of casa Schumacher.
Michael Schumacher, how is he: deafening silence
Also to be considered are the disagreements of the other Schumacher family, that of Ralf, Michael’s brother and like him a former F1 driver. Who came out in 2024 but was also targeted by the spite of his ex-wife, the exuberant Cora. In short, for one reason or another, 2024 was the year with the most news about Michael Schumacher and his entourage since he suffered the accident in 2013.
In addition to this, information about the pilot and his current state of health continues to be made with the greatest possible discretion and there is almost no news, or at least this is known. As always, the utmost secrecy reigns regarding his state of health: what is known for sure is that Schumi breathe independentlywhich physical therapists work to keep him a sufficient muscle tonebut also that he is immobile and does not speak. Little or nothing is known about what his responses to stimuli are or could be.
In less than a week, on January 3, Michael will turn 56 on a new birthday where the family doesn’t have much to celebrate as their lives have been turned upside down by the accident. But everyone’s motto, including ours which we have been repeating to ourselves like a mantra for 11 years, is always the same and Schumi himself taught it to us:
“I have always believed that you should never, ever give up and keep fighting even when there is a small, very small chance” #KeepFightingMichael
Source: sport.virgilio.it
