Norway’s Sturla Holm Laegreid said he has learned to hold his tongue in front of the media’s microphones at the Milan Cortina Games after a pair of gaffes that got him more headlines than his biathlon medals.
The 28-year-old, who won silver in Tuesday’s men’s relay, went viral for revealing in a post-race interview that he had cheated on his girlfriend, and he caused a war of words with Emilien Jacquelin of France with a joke in another interview that missed its target.
“After my atomic bomb in the mixed zone (about his cheating), I feel like I need to really watch what I’m saying, because now, now that every statement from me can become clickbait,” Laegreid told Reuters with a broad grin.
After beating the Frenchman to bronze in the men’s individual race by two-tenths of a second, Laegreid was on the receiving end of plenty of negative comments on social media after wondering if Jacquelin had stopped to greet fans.
