AJ Ginnis: GEPA footage
Xmas Ends 19-12 months Partnership With Fischer
Simply over per week in the past, Daniel Xmas introduced he’ll not race on Fischer skis throughout the 2025–26 Olympic season, signing as an alternative with Atomic. His determination ends a 19-year partnership between the Valais slalom ace and the Austrian ski model based mostly in Ried im Innkreis.
Ginnis Displays on a Lifetime With Fischer
Greek skier Alexandros Ioannis “AJ” Ginnis has spent much more time on Fischer skis—practically 30 years.
“I used to be born in November 1994, and by January 1996, my mother and father had Fischer skis on my boots,” Ginnis wrote in the present day on social media. “From that second on, Fischer wasn’t only a model – it turned part of me.”
The 2023 World Championship silver medalist supplied what gave the impression of a heartfelt farewell to the corporate that helped launch his profession—and his father’s, who raced for Greece on Fischer.
“For nearly three many years, by way of each chapter of my life—from Greece to Austria, to the USA, and again once more—Fischer has been with me,” Ginnis wrote. “By way of the triumphs and the heartbreaks, the accidents and the comebacks, Fischer has been greater than only a ski firm to me. It has been a continuing. A consolation. A household. Saying goodbye isn’t straightforward. However generally even the very best tales want a brand new chapter.”
Harm Forces Early Finish to 2024–25 Season
That new chapter has already begun. Ginnis’s 2024–25 season ended after simply two races final November. Whereas coaching off-snow, he fractured an osteophyte—a bone spur that had constructed up in his knee over time. Leaving it untreated risked the fragment breaking unfastened and locking the joint. Ginnis paused his season and turned his consideration to a comeback on a brand new ski model.
Nobody has confirmed the swap publicly, however skinews.ch reported final week that Ginnis is probably going becoming a member of VanDeer-Crimson Bull Sports activities.
Eyes on Olympic Debut in 2026
He additionally has a brand new aim: to lastly compete within the Winter Olympics. Ginnis missed the 2022 Video games after tearing his proper ACL in August 2021 throughout a coaching session with mini-tilt poles at Snow Valley, USA.
Teaching Adjustments Observe Tools Change
The model swap additionally alerts adjustments to Ginnis’s teaching employees. He’ll not work with head coach Magnus Andersson. Assistant coach Thomas Woolson and long-time service technician Primoz Finzgar may even depart the group.
