Louie Vito talks traveling Italian-style, being the old guys with Shaun White, and why his Opening Ceremony experiences are just as meaningful 12 years apart.

Shaun White finished third at the Laax Open in Switzerland, marking his first podium finish since he won his third Olympic gold medal in 2018 and all but cementing his spot at next month’s games in Beijing.

Shaun White all but wrapped up a spot in his fifth Olympics on Thursday when he qualified for the finals of a contest in Switzerland and his nearest American pursuer failed to move on.

Shaun White’s withdrawal from an Olympic qualifying event came after he experienced lingering COVID-19 symptoms, including fatigue and shortness of breath, The Associated Press has learned.

A young man from Farmington is making waves in the world of snowboarding as one of the fastest rising stars in the industry.

The next big leap in snowboarding went down Sunday on a sun-splashed halfpipe in Colorado with a trick that set the stakes for the gold-medal race to Beijing.

Shaun White will have to wait at least one more week to get an inside track on a trip to his fifth Olympics after an eighth-place finish at the season’s first qualifying event.

The two-time Olympic champion and the rest of the U.S. womens team, along with the mens Europa squad, recently returned to snow for a two-week, pay-strict-adherence-to-social-distance-guidelines camp in Copper Mountain, Colorado. Copper Mountain made it work, though. It's like grooming a slushy, laughed Mike Looney, the senior slope maintenance manager at Copper Mountain. Super peaceful.The ski team is hoping to hold another camp in July, possibly at Mount Hood in Oregon. As for a World Cup season, Wright remains optimistic.