Team Norway’s Sturla Holm Laegreid on Tuesday confessed to cheating on his girlfriend in a wild post-race interview following his bronze medal win in the men’s individual biathlon at the Winter Olympics.
Laegreid, in a tearful interview with Norway’s NRK, remarked on his first Olympic medal win before addressing “someone who may not be” watching the broadcast.
“Six months ago, I met the love of my life — the most beautiful, nicest person in the world. And three months ago, I made the biggest mistake of my life and cheated on her,” said Laegreid, per a translated version of the interview.
He continued, “I told her about it a week ago. It’s been the worst week of my life.”
The biathlete — in a separate interview with Norwegian newspaper VG — said he realized that he couldn’t live his life keeping his infidelity a “secret” from the woman, whom he did not name.
