“Never invested so much energy”
Ski jumping Olympic champion announces career decision
29.03.2025 – 9:19 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Simon Ammann has been in Switzerland’s national team since 1992. The ski jumping star is already 43 years old-does he think of quitting?
He just doesn’t give up and fights: Simon Ammann is one of the “oldies” on the ski jump at 43. The four -time Olympic champion (2002 and 2010) has been in the national squad since 1992 and is still active. He recently competed in the World Cup in Trondheim in Norway and was in the Continental Cup last weekend, the second highest international competition, in Zakopane tenth tenth.
The 2007 world champion is not included at the World Cup final in Planica in Slovenia. How long does the father of the family want to jump? The current season was not optimal for the Swiss. Ammann now answered the question.
In an interview with the SRF, he explained that he wanted to be there until the Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo next year. Ammann emphasized: “The Olympics are my big goal. I would never have invested so much energy in January if I hadn’t had a long -term goal.”
In January, the experienced jumper was removed from the World Cup squad and tried a lot in his technology to get going again. “I know from experience that such changes need time,” continued Ammann.
Should he really make it to the games, then he could come to a level with the German speed of ice skating Claudia Pechstein and the Japanese ski jumper Noriaki Kasai. So far, both took part in eight Olympic games, Ammann on seven. He played his first games in 1998.2002 in Salt Lake City Gold from the normal and large hill, in 2010 he repeated this double success in the games in Vancouver.