There were some looks of bemusement around the sports department this week when news dropped that "Schumacher wins the time-trial at the Tour de France," – a second glance though showed it was not Michael taking his Ferrari for a spin in the French countryside, but rather his cycling compatriot Stefan.
Further research into the German cyclist showed this was definitely not the Formula One legend as this sports winner was actually arrested for bad driving. Furthermore, police tests revealed he was under the influence of both alcohol and drugs.
Nonetheless, by the time you read this, the cyclists will have covered 1,027km of the 3500km, but nothing else interesting has emerged from that part of the world just yet. So from the Eurotunnel we head to Silverstone and focus on someone who just might be the next Schumacher – Lewis Hamilton.
Boy, must Hamilton be glad he grew up in wet and rainy England! The heavens opened up on the British Grand Prix on Sunday. Now that he is grown up, the 23-year-old has found that wet and rainy England's tax system puts a bit of damper on things and promptly moved to Switzerland.
However, the experience he has gained honing his skills in the wet are invaluable as his rivals found out at Silverstone when the McLaren driver finished the race 68 seconds ahead of everybody else, lapping all but two cars.
It was a sensational drive by the Briton in conditions so bad cars were spinning off the track while drivers complained they could barely see in front of them. BMW's Nick Heidfeld finished in second with Honda's Rubens Barrichello in third.
Hamilton and Ferrari duo Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen have 48 points at the halfway point in the 18-race season, a mere two points ahead of BMW driver Robert Kubica, who failed to finish the race.
Meanwhile the European Championships are over, it is a month before the football season begins again and most club warm-up games are only scheduled to start in two weeks time. So what, you wonder, could the football bosses at Uefa be doing to earn their salaries?
Well, for one, they decided this week to vote to change the name of "Euro Vase" league to the "Uefa Europa" League. Why? Well (because they have nothing better to do) they hope that keeping the name of the competition as close as possible to the European Champions League might inspire the teams in Europe's secondary continental championship to play better football.
And while a great deal has been written about tennis already this week, you cannot review the last few days without a mention of that match where he lost. Although Roger Federer is no longer invincible – especially now that he has lost at Wimbledon – it is a shame for the sport as many of his fans and opponents (and I) really believed he was.
The World No1 fought hard, but after four hours and 48 minutes the muscle-bound Rafael Nadal emerged victorious. Quite literally, because by that time – something past nine at night – it was so dark the spectators could barely see the players, let alone the ball.
However, all credit to the Spaniard who thoroughly deserved victory and although his game is not as elegant to watch as Federer's, the commitment he puts in is unbelievable and it all combined to produce a show now labelled by many as the "greatest match of the century".
Only recently tennis pundits were debating whether Federer was the "greatest tennis player of all time" or the "greatest sportsman of all time" – now that seems almost laughable thanks to Nadal's stunning win.
Actually, the 21-year-old Spaniard loves getting his word in on important debates; this week he claimed Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon had told him that the Cristiano Ronaldo transfer was "a done-and-dusted deal."
And so, to the most irritating transfer saga in world football, labelled as the "transfer of the century," by Calderon this week – only because it's taking a century to complete, I'm guessing – continues.