Arif Mohammad Khan is the only athlete from India, a country of nearly 1.4 billion people, when the Beijing Winter Olympics begin on Friday. At the age of four, Arif put on skis for the first time, just a few kilometres from the Line of Control that divides the disputed, conflict-ridden region of Kashmir.

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