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Some events like curling have already gotten underway, but today, the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing begin in earnest, with opening ceremonies followed by a variety of competition among the world's best winter sport athletes. One of those athletes is Leif Nordgren, a resident of Hinesburg, Vermont, and a Vermont National Guard team member competing in the sport of biathlon.

Nordgren is originally from Minnesota, and moved to Hinesburg about two and a half years ago. He spoke with VPR earlier last month from a training location in northern Italy, before he made his way to China, and described the sport that's become his passion.

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Their conversation is below and has been edited for clarity. Leif Nordgren: Biathlon is the winter sport of cross-country skiing combined with rifle marksmanship. So, obviously those two sports are very different. But that's kind of one of the beautiful things about biathalon of, you know, trying to combine a very physically demanding sport like cross-country skiing with a very mental concentration sport like shooting.

I grew up mostly just cross-country skiing. Actually, it wasn't till I was about 17 that I first got into biathlon. But yeah, once I did start, I kind of fell in love with it. So much more fun than plain cross-country skiing, in my opinion.