UBT: Olympian Admits to Cheating on His Girlfriend
A Norwegian Olympian admits to cheating on his girlfriend after his bronze medal win. What to make of this bizarre display? The Universal Bullshit Translator has thoughts.
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Put this in the post-race interview hall of fame.
— Marley Dickinson (@marleydickinson) February 10, 2026
Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Laegreid throws a Hail Mary and asks for his girlfriend, whom he was unfaithful to, to take him back after winning Olympic bronze in the men's 20km interval start. https://t.co/XjsJtVDplF
In Holy Manipulation! cheater news, Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Laegreif, 28, chose the moment of his Olympian acceptance speech to pressure his chumped girlfriend to take him back.
Oh swoon! How romantic!
I’m sure that was the expected response. Hunky Norwegian skier emotionally vomits on the world stage, we all have a collective awww.
As Chump Lady, I find Laegreif’s remorse rather suss.
Well, you would, you cynical old harridan.
Don’t you? Doesn’t it seem like hoovering? I detect whiffs of sad sausage mindfuckery.
I asked the Universal Bullshit Translator to weigh in.
The New York Times reports (gift link):
Sturla Holm Laegreid’s Winter Olympics celebration took a shocking turn on Tuesday. The Norwegian, fresh off winning bronze in the 20km individual biathlon race at Milan Cortina, stunned fans by confessing on live TV that he had cheated on his girlfriend.
Nothing says romance like live television. Just ask the Cold Play couple caught on a Jumbotron or anyone mortified into a wedding proposal at a sports arena.
Try rejecting me now, Ingrid! I HAVE BARED MY SOUL ON LIVE TELEVISION!
This has been hard on Sturla. No, harder really.
“It’s been the worst week of my life,” he admitted, speaking to NRK, a Norwegian broadcaster. “There’s someone I wanted to share it with who might not be watching. Six months ago, I met the love of my life — the most beautiful and kindest person in the world. Three months ago, I made my biggest mistake and cheated on her.
Discovering your Olympian boyfriend has been cheating on you is not nearly as distressing as being that Olympian boyfriend. What with all the adoring groupies wanting to touch your medals.
Yes, Sturla knew 6 months ago that he had met the love chump of his life, which is why he had to express his good fortune with his wandering dick.
Surely the most beautiful and kind person in the world will forgive? Can’t you see our future together? Don’t you wish to spend your life with a man who has the discernment and good judgment to ignore his blessings and issue apologies on live television instead? Imagine the stupid children we could have together!
The UBT thinks Sturla may have taken too many ski poles to the head.
Sports come second…
“I had the gold medal in life, and I am sure there are many people who will see things differently, but I only have eyes for her. Sport has come second these last few days. Yes, I wish I could share this with her,” he said. Laegreid did not reveal the identity of his girlfriend.
I only have eyes for her, but my dick belongs to many.
I got a gold medal in life. Sports got the silver. And my audacity takes the bronze.
I wish I could share this moment with you, Ingrid. As if this isn’t in the entire world’s news feed.
Oops, did I upstage you?
“Of course, now I hope I didn’t ruin Johan’s day,” he said. “I don’t know if it was the right choice or not, but it was the choice I made.”
Johan, did you take a gold medal in this event? MY GIRLFRIEND DUMPED ME!
I don’t know if upstaging you because I haz a sadz was the right choice, but it’s my choice.
Let me make it up to you via apology on a Jumbotron. Johan, you are the most beautiful and kind biathlete…
I will try anything.
He said he didn’t want to steal the show, adding, “I made the choice to tell the world what I did so maybe there’s a chance she will see what she really means to me — maybe not, but I don’t want to think I didn’t try everything to get her back.”
You mean everything to me in that I-got-bored-three-months in kind of way. I would do anything to get you back. If there were Olympian events to win back your girlfriend, I would compete! I would slalom through a thorny forest. I would eat a hundred lingonberry pies with my hands tied behind my back! For you, I would wear the itchiest Nordic sweater while tobogganing down a mine shaft! ANYTHING!
My fragile ego means everything to me.
According to Reuters, Laegreid later spoke to Norwegian newspaper VG, saying, “My only way to solve it is to tell everything and put everything on the table, and hope that she can still love me.”
The only way to solve this is to respect women and not cheat on them. Failing that, please accept this live television announcement.
I don’t speak Norwegian, but I missed the apology. He said he made a mistake and wants her back and this has been the “worst week” of his life.
Tracy, I know he’s Norwegian, not Swedish, but when I try to conjure up what this guy might look like (without ever seeing a picture of him. I haven’t watched the video yet), for some reason I envision John Candy’s character from Splash (I know I’m dating myself) reciting words from Swedish sex movies, saying effectively,”Hey babe! I have a twelve inch penis.” That’s what pops into my head, and the maturity level I think of for Sturla. Granted, John Candy is funny as hell, but this guy falls way, way flat.
Bless his heart
I can understand you wanting to tell the world you love a certain woman. But telling the world that you cheated on her, but you hope she’ll take you back? Low class to no class. And selfish all the way. Sigh.🙄🫤
He cheated on her three months into the relationship…no, just no.
How high will she jump? How prettily will she dance? If they are doing it so early on (and in such a blatant way), it is all about testing boundaries, I believe.
For many FW, triangulation is everything, I believe. And as a professional athlete, he probably only cares about winning. Maybe he hopes that his (ex) girlfriend is the same.
I spied this story yesterday while reading the news.
Here’s his Instagram if you care to rebut those celebrating him for manning up and being honest! Because this is a sure sign that he is actually a winner! A gold medal life partner!
https://www.instagram.com/sturlal?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
He’s been with the Love of his Life for SIX MONTHS and cheating on her for THREE of them?!
OMFG I hope she gets on the steepest downhill course she can find and skis away from him, and far away from him.
The selfish b*stard can’t even let his Ex deal with the consequences of his unilateral decisions about their relationship in private and in her own time …. oh no, he just had to put it out there and put her “on the spot” in public.
I hope that she shuts that sh*t down really quickly.
LFTT
PS. If there is an upside to this, it’s that every time that anyone Googles his name at any time in the future, it won’t be his bronze medal that’s at the top of the list.
I like this switch to listening to a liar confess. He’ll grow out of it.
Agreed. We should repeatedly Google his name and “cheater” so it will be impossible to untie the two. May any future girlfriends never say they weren’t warned!
This 👆⚠️
Also, here is a brand new relationship, high on sex and beautiful bodies of ONLY A FEW MONTHS..and the love of his 28 years????and still he cheats?? So us plain chumps who just find out that 10-20-30 40 years of service was not enough to keep a cheater, should take heart. The moving goal posts would never stop..
EPIC ACTOR– must be a newbie– not sure how to hide his cheating yet. Sad sausage and centrality already in place. I can’t be rejected because I am a handsome hunk Prize Olympiad…don’t say No to me!! I am too adorable and yes HUMBLE BEFORE THE ENTIRE WORLD. I see his life unfolding as just another cheater…but woman will flock to help him out. *Sigh *
This dude is pretending to be a hot mess and he said this to humiliate the woman. He’s not sorry or sad at all. He just won a frickin’ medal. He’s feeling empowered to harass her publicly.
When you have a vicious ex who hides behind the “crazy with grief” excuse, you recognize this abusive sh*t. Take his medal away. That’s a serious abuser there.
The crying is a red flag. My ex used it to great effect. Mr. Crying knows this is not going to get his girlfriend back. The important part of his statement is the first part, then he plays the sympathy card and says he wants to reconcile. No he doesn’t. He is telling her in front of the world, “eff you, b*tch, I rejected you” because private discard was not enough. He is disrespectful of Olympic protocols and honor, all he cares about is exploiting the Olympic reputation for his image management. No boundaries, outsize hostility, and complete self-absorption and self righteousness. Take away his guns, too.
A few months ago, my oldest and I were leaving a big event and ran into a friend of the FW’s outsde. I stopped to say hello. (The FW has no deep connections, so while this guy is definitely HIS friend vs mine, he’s a nice enough guy and I wasn’t going to snub him in the street, he was worthy of a hello)
He was a little tipsy and said he had conincidentally just been talking to the FW a few nights ago. (they don’t talk frequently) And he felt he just had to say “He loves you guys so much”. The friend said something along the lines of “I know, I know” in a vague attempt at acknowledging he knows the FW did something to deservce to be in the position he is. But the friend really believed that the FW is just so sad and so sorry.
To be clear, he, despite being a tad tipsy, managed to impart this message without mnaking me feel like he was judging me. It was more like he knew that the FW is a FW, but still felt bad for him and yet understood why I was not on good terms. What it painted for me was a picture of the FW sobbing about how awful he feels about being in this position.
A lot to impart in a quick drunken hello..but that was how it went.
It did make me wonder what the friend knows. He def wasn’t bamboozled into thinking FW is an innocent forest creature that did nothing wrong. He didn’t think I was a bitter harpy that won’t forgive ” A “(singular) mistake. But I also doubt he had any idea how long things went on nor how cruel and frightening FW can be.
Three months in? Ten bucks says he’s already given the reascuse to someone that they hadn’t discussed if they were exclusive quite yet. So was it really cheating?
From most trusted news source, People— “In an interview with Norwegian outlet VG on Wednesday, Feb. 11, Lægreid’s ex said his infidelity was “hard to forgive, even after a declaration of love in front of the whole world.”
“I did not choose to be put in this position, and it hurts to have to be in it. We have had contact and he is aware of my opinions on this,” said the woman, who asked to remain anonymous. “[I am grateful] to my family and friends who have embraced me and supported me during this time. Also to everyone else who has thought of me and sympathized, without knowing who I am.”
I am so confused.
He met her 6 months ago, he cheated on her 3 months into the relationship which was 3 months ago.
Did she dump him right away, and he is still pining 3 months later? Or did she maybe stick around and dump him more recently?
As previously stated, nothing says “one true love” like cheating 3 months in.
I watched the video. There was sniffling and cry-face, not so sure there were any actual tears though.
And how much do you want to bet that he has been chasing her for 3 months, and making grand gestures like this post-win televised on the world stage speech, all while banging an array of groupies? Oh so sad, let me drown my sorrows in strange.
Hopefully she doesn’t fall for it.
EDIT: I saw another article. He hasn’t been pining for 3 months. He only told her about the cheating “recently” and so the dumping is more recent.
My guess? He was afraid the Olympics would make him newswotrthery (medal or not) and the side piece would sign like a canary asd they often do in these scenarios.
GF seems uninterested in getting back together. Good for her! But also, how awful to be thrust into the spotlight like that.
Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn, anyone? Cardio B just maybe broke up with Stefon Diggs after being his SIXTH baby mama yes you read that right. All different mothers.
Pro athletes play by different rules and constant cheating seems to be part of the package or lifestyle.
Maybe this guy is looking for lucrative endorsement deals and needs a “story” to stand out because he didn’t win the gold?