""There is something I want to share with someone who may not be watching today," 28-year-old Lægreid said as he cried. "Half a year ago I met the love of my life. The world's most beautiful and nicest person. Three months ago I made the mistake of my life and cheated on her, and I told her about that a week ago. This has been the worst week of my life.""
""The sun rose in my life. At first, as dawn breaking on the horizon, almost as if to say, this is where you have to look. Then came the first rays of sunshine, everything became clearer, lighter, more alive, and I became happier and happier, and then it hung in the sky of my life and shone and sh""
Sturla Holm Lægreid won the bronze medal in the men's 20km biathlon and then delivered a tearful, televised confession that he had cheated on his girlfriend. He said he experienced a revelation the night before and decided to "drop this bomb" because he had nothing to lose. He described meeting the love of his life six months earlier, making the mistake three months later, and informing her about it a week ago, calling the past week the worst of his life. A long literary passage about sunrise and exposure is quoted as a parallel to public confession and personal exposure.
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