Michael Schumacher
Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher of Germany goes snow boarding during a stay in the northern Italian resort of Madonna Di Campiglio, in this January 12, 2005 file photo. Formula One ex-champion Schumacher, who sustained severe head injuries in a ski accident in late 2013, is no longer in a coma and has left the French hospital where he was being treated since the accident, his spokeswoman said on June 16, 2014. REUTERS

Michael Schumacher has been released from a Swiss hospital and will continue his recovery at home multiple media outfits reported on Tuesday.

"Michael's rehabilitation will take place at his home. Considering the severe injuries he suffered, progress has been made in the past weeks and months,” Sabine Kehm, Schumacher’s official spokesperson said.

Schumacher, a seven-time Formula One (F1) champion was involved in a skiing accident in the French Alps while skiing with his 14-year-old son in December 201. He suffered a serious head injury that needed two major operations days after the incident.

The 45-year-old Schumacher, who hails from Hurth, West Germany, has been put in a medically induced coma after going under the knife to remove the blood clot in his brain and continued treatment in a French hospital before being transferred to a Swiss hospital in June.

“We ask that the privacy of Michael's family continue to be respected, and that speculations about his state of health are avoided,” Schumacher’s manager added in the same statement.

Controversies involving the media have piled up since the accident. This includes a reported sale of the official doctor’s records of the state of health of Schumacher by a personnel of a Swiss helicopter air rescue company. The suspect in that case was found hanged in a cell while the investigation was still on-going.

Schumacher, who drove for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari and Mercedes in his colourful F1 career from 1991 to 2006 and 2010 to 2012, won F1 championships in 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 and is considered the greatest driver of all time in his sport.

Schumacher’s manager said in the same statement that while progress has been made on Schumacher’s medical condition, there is still “a long and difficult road ahead” to Schumacher’s full recovery.