Greek-American ski racer AJ Ginnis has shared that his 2024-25 season has floor to a sudden cease following a knee damage. Alexandros Ioannis ‘AJ’ Ginnis has fractured an osteophyte—an irregular bone development in his knee joint—throughout health coaching.
“It’s worse than anticipated, and I would like surgical procedure,” Ginnis revealed to skinews.ch, confirming stories of a knee damage that can require months of rehabilitation. “After that, I’ll must take a break for 3 to 4 months earlier than I can get again on skis.” For Ginnis, who claimed Greece’s first-ever World Cup podium in February 2023 in Chamonix, France, the damage is devastating, “I don’t know what to say. I’m vastly disillusioned.”
AJ Ginnis is the son of a Greek ski teacher and an American mom who discovered to ski on Mount Parnassos, Greece. Whereas he was born in Athens, Greece, Ginnis moved to Kaprun, Austria, on the age of 12, the place his father labored as a ski teacher. At 15, he moved to Vermont and joined the Inexperienced Mountain Valley Faculty. At 17, he grew to become a member of the U.S. Ski Group and competed for the USA for a number of seasons. After a string of accidents and a pause in racing attributable to Covid-19, he was approached by the Greek ski staff. Coincidentally, the U.S. discontinued their monetary assist to him, and Ginnis began snowboarding underneath the Greek flag from 2020-21.
In January 2021, Ginnis grew to become the primary Greek skier to win World Cup FIS factors, with an eleventh place in Slalom at Flachau, Austria. In February 2023 he claimed the first-ever World Cup podium for Greece and backed it up simply two weeks later with Greece’s first-ever World Championship Silver Medal on the 2023 World Championships in Courchevel, France.
Sadly, the damage means Ginnis will miss the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach, Austria.
It isn’t Ginnis’ first knee damage—the Greek skier has had a complete of six knee accidents: 5 on his left knee and one on his proper knee. He has torn his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) 3 times, torn his meniscus twice, and as soon as tore his medial collateral ligament (MCL). He has obtained a number of surgical procedures in addition to stem cell injections to his knees. Ginnis needed to miss the 2022 Olympic Winter Video games attributable to a kind of accidents.
We want him a speedy restoration and sit up for seeing him within the 2025-26 World Cup season and the 2026 Olympic Winter Video games in Milan, Italy.
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