2010 U.S. Olympic Team Media Summit Newsletter, Sept. 11
Louie was featured in the U.S. Olympic Team Media Summit Newsletter (that’s a mouthful). Here’s another excerpt. Click on the link to download the full PDF.
While Louis Vito and Kevin Pearce, 2010 Olympic hopefuls for halfpipe snowboard- ing, will be jostling for a spot on the team, it’s what they’re doing outside of training for the Games that sets them apart from other boarders.
Take 21-year-old Vito, who will be appear- ing on ABC’s popular reality show “Dancing with the Stars” starting Sept. 21. The Ohio native says it’s a good way to stay in shape and allows him to take his mind off of snow- boarding.
“You can laugh at me all you want,” Vito said. “I just need your vote.”
But halfpipe snowboarding and dancing couldn’t be more different, so trading his board for ballroom shoes has been a bit of a challenge.
“My snowboarding posture doesn’t really work for the ballroom,” he said. “In snow- boarding you can take a trick that everybody does and put your own twist and your own flare on it, but [in the ballroom] you have to do it that way. There’s a correct way. It’s a little stricter lifestyle than snowboarding is.”
