Olympian Apologizes For Trying To Win His Ex Girlfriend Back After Winning Bronze Medal
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Some are calling it a grand romantic gesture, others see it as a rude, manipulative distraction: Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Laegreid tearfully admitting he was unfaithful to his ex-girlfriend during a post medal interview. Well now Laegreid is now apologizing for stealing the spotlight from his teammate who won gold and for shining the spotlight on his ex, who has now publicly stated, did NOT want this international attention.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.0 | It is Thursday, February 12th, and we have a major update on a story out of the Olympics |
| 0:12.7 | that everybody was buzzing about. |
| 0:15.3 | The Olympian who won a medal, and then immediately in his post-race interview, |
| 0:20.4 | confessed and apologized for being unfaithful |
| 0:24.6 | to his ex-girlfriend. Well, he has now issued another apology to the same ex-girlfriend. |
| 0:33.3 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. I got this right. He's essentially |
| 0:36.6 | apologizing for the first apology. Correct. And he's apologizing to his ex-girlfriend and to his teammates. A lot of folks. Almost his whole country, is he not? Pretty much, yes. He's on an apology tour after winning a medal. It doesn't make any sense. Okay. Has this story now taken what kind of a turn? Let's start to begin. I think a lot of |
| 0:56.3 | people have seen this now. Norwegian athlete. He is a ski by athlete. It gets a bronze medal |
| 1:02.8 | post-race interview, apologize, just out of nowhere, tearfully says, I'm sorry, I love you, |
| 1:09.7 | I want you, blah, blah, blah. We'll get into exactly what he said. |
| 1:12.3 | The story then, what did you think of it? |
| 1:15.8 | Because it's taken a turn now, but right then. |
| 1:18.3 | And what did you see people saying? |
| 1:19.7 | Were they going, oh, or give them a shot or give them credit? |
| 1:23.2 | I guess what was your feeling and everybody's feeling then? |
| 1:26.7 | Initially, it's a little |
| 1:27.8 | shocking because you're expecting someone to be crying tears of joy after just meddling in the |
| 1:33.2 | olympics something you've spent your entire life working towards so it's bizarre first of all |
| 1:38.5 | and then part of me was like oh that's that's actually so interesting something about human nature that even at one of the |
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