Breaking News : Michael Schumacher in Coma after a Ski Accident

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Breaking News : Michael Schumacher in Coma after a Ski Accident

7 Times Formula one champion Michael Schumacher is in critical condition, after he met with an accident while skiing with his 14 year old son in the French Alps.

The 44-year-old German was "suffering a serious brain trauma with coma on his arrival, which required an immediate neurosurgical operation", the hospital in the southeastern French city of Grenoble said in a brief statement.

Schumacher had been skiing off-piste with his 14-year-old son in the upmarket Meribel resort, where he reportedly has a property, when he fell and hit his head on a rock.

He was airlifted to a local hospital, then, an hour later, to the better-equipped Grenoble facility. A surgeon and brain specialist from Paris was rushed in to oversee his treatment.

The director of the Meribel resort, Christophe Gernigon-Lecomte, had said just after the accident that Schumacher had been wearing a helmet and was "conscious but a little agitated", suggesting he had not received life-threatening injuries.

But when Schumacher fell into coma, doctors realised the damage was worse than initially feared.

Even now, he is still in a critical condition, and fans all over the world are praying for his recovery.