FILE - Louie Vito competes during the snowboarding superpipe final at the Dew Tour iON Mountain Championships, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, in Breckenridge, Colo. For years, Vito, who parlayed his halfpipe career into one of a part-time celebrity, has represented the red, white and blue of Team USA. For Beijing, he’s switching to the green, white, and red of Italy as he returns to the Olympic arena for the first time since taking fifth on the halfpipe in Vancouver in 2010. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Louis Philip Vito III trains on the halfpipe course at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Louis Philip Vito III trains on the halfpipe course at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

FILE - Snowboarding competitor Louie Vito is interviewed in Times Square during the U.S. Olympic Committee's Road to Sochi 100 Day Countdown event, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, in New York. For years, Vito, who parlayed his halfpipe career into one of a part-time celebrity, has represented the red, white and blue of Team USA. For Beijing, he’s switching to the green, white, and red of Italy as he returns to the Olympic arena for the first time since taking fifth on the halfpipe in Vancouver in 2010. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Italy's Louis Philip Vito III trains on the halfpipe curse at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)