Skiing and the Art of the Public Apology

Norway’s Sturla Holm Laegreid after crossing the finish line in the Winter Olympics men’s biathlon 10-kilometer sprint.

The Norwegian biathlete who confessed to cheating on his girlfriend during his Olympic bronze-medal speech follows in the footsteps of Bill Clinton, Jude Law, and countless others

By Flora Gill

There’s a confessed cheater in the Winter Olympics. And it’s not a skier injecting steroids between his toes, or a Lycra-clad luger sabotaging his competitor’s blades. No, it’s the bronze-winning Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Laegreid, who stepped out on his girlfriend. And we know this because he told the whole world … live, on the news. Laegreid had presumably been training most of his life for the moment he mounted that podium in Cortina, but rather than thank his parents, or his coach, or God for gifting him with Olympic-medal-worthy thighs, he declared that, for him, this wasn’t a time for celebration, like everyone assumed, but rather “the worst week of my life.” READ ON