Profitable an Olympic medal spurred a Norwegian biathlete to shoot his shot … together with his ex-girlfriend.
In an emotional interview after he earned the bronze medal within the males’s 20 km. biathlon on the 2026 Milan Cortina Video games on Tuesday, Sturla Holm Lægreid stunned audiences with an unprompted private confession.
Three months in the past, he stated, he cheated on “the love of [his] life, probably the most stunning and kindest individual.”
“I instructed her per week in the past. And it’s been the worst week of my life,” he instructed Norwegian Broadcasting Corp. (NRK). “I had a gold medal in life, and there’s in all probability lots of people on the market who take a look at me in another way now, however I solely have eyes for her. Sports activities has taken a little bit of a again seat these previous couple of days. Yeah, I want I might share this together with her.”
Lægreid, 28, introduced up the subject by saying that he had wished to share his win with somebody “who won’t be watching at this time.”
With out naming his ex-partner, he stated that he met her six months in the past. She broke up with him as soon as he instructed her about his betrayal.
“I’m not prepared to surrender. I hope that committing social suicide [like this] would possibly present her how a lot I really like her,” Lægreid stated. I settle for the implications of what I’ve achieved. I remorse it with all my coronary heart. Possibly I’m dumb as a rock. I’m a member of Mensa, however I nonetheless do silly stuff.”
He stated he’s “realized that that is the lady of my life, and I can’t stay my complete life protecting that from her. My solely path to the end line is to inform her every part and put all of it on the desk, and hope that she’ll nonetheless love me. I’ve achieved that for her, and now for your complete world. I’ve nothing to lose.”
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