{"id":477650,"date":"2026-02-13T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477650\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:12:08","slug":"norwegian-wins-olympic-bronze-again-days-after-on-air-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477650\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian wins Olympic bronze again, days after on-air confession"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANTERSELVA, Italy — Sturla Holm Laegreid of Norway won a bronze medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Friday in the men’s sprint biathlon race — three days after making an unexpected confession during a postrace interview.<\/p>\n

Laegreid also won bronze in the 20-kilometer individual race Tuesday. Then he revealed in a live broadcast interview that he had been unfaithful to his girlfriend and hoped to win her back.<\/p>\n

His tearful confession was criticized by some who said it took the focus away from teammate Johan-Olav Botn, who won the gold medal in that event.<\/p>\n

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“I deeply regret sharing this personal story on what was a day of celebration for Norwegian biathlon,” Laegreid said in a statement issued by the Norwegian team Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Quentin Fillon Maillet of France won Friday’s sprint race — his second gold of the Milan Cortina Games after the mixed relay — and Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen of Norway took silver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANTERSELVA, Italy — Sturla Holm Laegreid of Norway won a bronze medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-477650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}