Injuries are part of sport. You do it long enough and you will injure yourself, sometimes mildly, sometimes fatally. I"m sorry to hear about Schumacher but he did the right thing, took as many risks off the table as he could (wearing a helmet and seeking medical help) and rolled the dice to do something he enjoyed.  I hope he recovers, and my thought go out to his family.

One of my best friends died in an avalanche (thankfully by blunt force head trauma as opposed to suffocation) and he up until that point had done everything right as well. And yet it didn't matter at all. It's a dangerous sport. Most good ones are. The only one I've stepped away from because of injury was downhill mountain bike racing (2x breaks in each of tib & fib, ruptured achilles, tib anterior tendon pulled off bone, necrotizing fasciitis, bone marrow transplant, skin grafts and daily pain almost 20 years later took away my appetite for going really fast down rocks on a bike...). The others despite broken bones, dislocated shoulders, bruises, tendon and nerve damage and more stiches than I could count still provide more fun than pain.


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Past-President, Porsche Club of America - Upper Canada Region