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French surgeon Gerard Saillant, a friend of former German driver Michael Schumacher, attends a press conference of the neurosurgeons and staff members at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire hospital of Grenoble on December 30, 2013, where the seven-time Formula One champion, Michael Schumacher, is in a coma and remains in a "critical" condition after striking his head in a ski accident in the French Alps. The German, who turns 45 on Friday, had been skiing off-piste with his 14-year-old son at the upmarket Alps resort of Meribel when he fell and hit a rock. AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE DESMAZES