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Ever wondered how Jennifer Lawrence managed to shoot down a stealth fighter plane with a bow and arrow in The Hunger Games? Thanks to an Olympic archer, that’s how

And not just any Olympic archer: Khatuna Lorig has competed at five Olympic Games for three different nations

With the final part of the blockbuster series currently in cinemas around the world, Lorig told rio2016

com what it was like to train Hollywood’s highest paid actress (see video below)

“I wanted her to look like a real archer,” said the Georgian-born Lorig, who now competes for the USA

The 41-year-old, who won team bronze at the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games with the Unified Team that represented the former Soviet Union, said the Oscar-winning Lawrence got so good that she had to move the target further away so she wouldn’t break the arrows

More than just bows and arrows… find out about archery with our interactive infographic Khatuna Lorig with Jennifer Lawrence during archery training (Photo: personal archive) "She got better and better so I had to move her away from the target so she didn't break the arrows" Khatuna Lorig Lorig was in Rio for September’s archery test event at the iconic Sambódromo, when she did this video interview with rio2016

com’s Thiago Minete:After the break-up of the Soviet Union, Lorig represented Georgia at the Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 Games

Then, after moving to the USA, she joined her adopted nation’s team at the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Games, finishing fourth in the women’s individual event in the British capital

“It wasn’t planned, none of it,” she said, of her varying nationality

“It just happened, it’s life

”      Lorig carried the USA flag at the Beijing 2008 Games (Photo: Getty Images/Michael Steele)   Lorig, who won the individual gold at this year’s Pan-American Games in Toronto, also made a splash in 2015 by posing nude in ESPN magazine’s ‘body issue’, which celebrates the athletic form

Currently the second-highest placed American in the world rankings at no

9, Lorig is confident she will she compete in her sixth Olympic Games in Rio, saying: “I have no doubt I’ll come back to Rio next year

” Lorig just missed out on the bronze medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games (Photo: Getty Images/Paul Gilham)