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   Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Lægreid decided last week the gesture   
   would be stronger if he admitted his mistake to everyone on television as   
   an Olympic medalist at the 2026 Winter Games.   
      
   So there he was at the finish line, in front of a camera from Norway's NRK   
   Television on Tuesday, Feb. 10 in Anterselva, Italy, after winning a   
   bronze medal in the 20-kilometer biathlon final, telling his country - and   
   the world, as it's turned out - that he recently cheated on "the love of   
   my life."   
      
   This Norwegian love triangle played out on the international sporting   
   stage, with Lægreid quickly in tears as he confessed on air, explaining   
   how the circumstances affected his performance and his desire to restore   
   the relationship.   
      
   "There is someone who may not be watching today. Half a year ago, I met   
   the love of my life, the world's most beautiful, finest person," Lægreid   
   said, according to a NRK transcript translated into English by Google   
   Translate, "and three months ago I made the biggest mistake of my life and   
   cheated on her."   
      
   "I had a gold medal in my life," he continued. "There are probably many   
   now who look at me with different eyes, but I only have eyes for her. I   
   don't quite know what I want to achieve by saying it here now, but sport   
   has taken second place in recent days. I wish I could share it with her."   
      
   Lægreid, 28, is also a former gold medalist in the biathlon relay at the   
   2022 Winter Olympics and he's a six-time former world champion in biathlon   
   since 2021. But he said the guilt from his transgressions affected his   
   preparation in the lead-up to the Milano Cortina Games. Lægreid declined   
   to name the person he was discussing during the interview, though he   
   revealed that he told her of his infidelity last week.   
      
   At the end of the conversation, the Norwegian reporter asked Lægreid if he   
   had considered what this person might think now that he had told all of   
   Norway what he had done. "Maybe I ruined myself now to get her back,"   
   Lægreid conceded, according to Google Translate.   
      
   "It hurts to admit when you do something you cannot stand for and hurt   
   someone you love so much. But such is life now," he said. "I had a chance   
   at true love and turned out so amazing. It is not certain that it can be   
   forgiven. But if this can give me a tiny chance to tell her how much I   
   love her, I'd rather commit social suicide on live TV just to get that   
   small chance."   
      
   https://www.centraloregondaily.com/sports/olympic-medalist-makes-   
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   Way to end it you fool.   
      
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