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Formula One Great Michael Schumacher Comes Out Of Coma

Michael Schumacher in April 2012.
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Michael Schumacher in April 2012.

Formula One legend Michael Schumacher is out of a coma and has been moved from a French hospital to one in Switzerland where he will continue his rehabilitation.

That news comes from his manager, Sabine Kehm, .

Schumacher, if you remember, had been in a medically-induced coma after a suffering a head injury while skiing in December.

At first, doctors said they were . But by late January, doctors .

The hospital in Grenoble, France, told the AP that Schumacher had been released Monday morning.

There was no further word on his condition.

, Schumacher is the motorsport's most successful driver. He's a seven-time champion, whose "sheer dominance" in his prime is "beyond doubt."

"Schumacher also holds nearly every scoring record in the book by a considerable margin," F1 says.

Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

Eyder Peralta is NPR's East Africa correspondent based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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