Schumacher showing ‘small, encouraging signs’

Michael Schumacher is showing “small, encouraging signs” that he may wake from his coma, more than two months after a ski crash left the Formula One champion with severe head injuries.

Updates since Schumacher’s accident have offered few details and limited optimism for the man who once drove the world’s fastest cars, and the latest statement from his agent was little different, describing “an extremely intimate and fragile situation” for his family.

Sabine Kehm said in a statement: “It is very hard to comprehend for all of us that Michael, who had overcome a lot of precarious situations in the past, has been hurt so terribly in such a banal situation.