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Olympic medal winner confesses to affair on Norwegian TV

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Bronze medalist Sturla Holm Laegreid of Team Norway speaks during a press conference following the Men's 20km Individual at Anterselva Biathlon Arena on Tuesday.

By Jill Martin, CNN

(CNN) — In what may be an Olympic first, biathlete Sturla Holm Laegreid of Norway admitted on Norwegian television following his competition that he cheated on his girlfriend.

Laegreid made the revelation after taking bronze in the men’s 20km individual event. After speaking about the affair in the interview, he told reporters in the post-event news conference that he wasn’t sure if going public with the affair was the right choice.

“We make different choices during our life and that’s how you make life, basically. So, today I made the choice to tell the world what I did,” he said.

“So, maybe, maybe there’s a chance that she will see what she really means to me. And maybe not, but I don’t want to think I didn’t try everything to get her back. So, yeah, again, I don’t want to steal the show today.”

He later added: “I haven’t had any reactions from the girl that I mentioned. I’m happy because then maybe she hasn’t seen it; maybe she will see it at the right time.

“I hope I don’t make anything worse for her, but maybe it can help. I don’t know. I hope there’s a happy ending in the end. So, we will see what time will do.”

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Perdió a sus padres en un accidente de avión, pero Maxim Naumov los llevó consigo a los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno

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Por Ben Church, Frank Nunns O’Connell y Holly Yan, CNN

Cualquiera que haya perdido a un ser querido puede apreciar lo difícil que debió ser para Maxim Naumov, no solo mantener la compostura, sino también lograr su mejor actuación de la temporada en el escenario más grande de todos, los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno.

La emoción estaba a flor de piel incluso antes de empezar, con las palabras “Mamá, papá, esto es para ustedes” apareciendo en las pantallas gigantes del estadio.

Se podía oír caer un alfiler mientras se deslizaba sobre el hielo, como en una burbuja propia.

Cuando se arrodilló al final de la rutina, se podía ver un poco de emoción antes de que se recompusiera y esbozara una hermosa sonrisa que iluminó la sala.

No quedó claro qué dijo exactamente Naumov cuando miró al cielo en el centro de la pista con la multitud enloquecida a su alrededor, pero fue un momento increíblemente conmovedor y personal de presenciar.

Sus entrenadores también vivieron cada momento de esa rutina desde un lateral de la pista y ambos le dieron un fuerte abrazo mientras se sentaba para recibir su puntuación.

Luego mostró una foto de su infancia en la que aparecían sus padres tomados de la mano cerca de una pista de hielo. Apenas había un ojo seco en la casa en ese momento, pero Naumov mantuvo la sonrisa y parecía contento con su puntuación.

Quedaba claro para cualquiera que estuviera viendo que ese momento iba más allá de los puntos.

El joven de 24 años perdió trágicamente a sus padres, los campeones mundiales y dos veces olímpicos de patinaje artístico por parejas Evgenia Shishkova y Vadim Naumov, en un accidente aéreo en enero de 2025.

Naumov, hijo único, no tenía a nadie que comprendiera su dolor ni que lo guiara como lo hicieron sus padres dentro y fuera del hielo.

Así que forjó su propio camino: formó un nuevo equipo de entrenadores desde cero, redobló su entrenamiento y asumió el cargo de director de Tomorrow’s Champions, su escuela de patinaje para jóvenes atletas.

“Atarme esos patines por primera vez fue una de las cosas más difíciles que he hecho en mi vida”, declaró Naumov a CNN Sports antes de los Juegos Olímpicos, cuando patinó por primera vez desde la muerte de sus padres.

“Pero en cuanto pisé la pista, repito, el apoyo abrumador, los abrazos, las lágrimas… Todos me abrazaron y me ayudaron cuando más lo necesitaba”.

Maxim se recuperó para ganar el bronce en el campeonato nacional de 2026 y lograr lo que él y sus padres siempre habían soñado: representar a Estados Unidos en los Juegos Olímpicos.

A pesar de la difícil trayectoria, Naumov quería representar a su familia de la mejor manera cuando saltara a la pista de hielo en Milán.

“Solo quiero mostrarles a todos el valor de la resiliencia en nuestra familia, de nunca rendirse, de esforzarse y luchar con uñas y dientes por todo lo que se pueda”, dijo.

“Así es como me criaron y quiero que la gente sepa que quiero ser un ejemplo para quienes estén pasando por algo similar”.

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Takeaways from a tense House hearing with Trump immigration officials

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By Michael Williams, CNN

(CNN) — With the Trump administration’s mass deportation push under intense scrutiny, the heads of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and US Citizenship and Immigration Services faced tough questions during a congressional committee hearing on Tuesday.

ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons, CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott and USCIS Director Joseph Edlow spent more than three hours testifying in front of the House Homeland Security Committee.

Lyons and Scott faced tough questions about last month’s shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by officers under their command. Both said the shootings were being investigated — and committed to sharing the results of those investigations with Congress — but otherwise, they largely declined to comment about the shootings because of the active probes.

Edlow, meanwhile, largely avoided scrutiny during the hearing.

Here are the takeaways from the hearing:

Good and Pretti are invoked repeatedly, but officials say little about investigations

The committee repeatedly brought up the killings of Pretti and Good in Minneapolis by federal agents last month. Lyons and Scott, both of whom lead agencies whose officers were involved in the shootings, declined to say much about them, citing active investigations. They repeated versions of that line in response to multiple questions from Democratic lawmakers.

Neither Scott nor Lyons mentioned the killings — which have caused a widespread backlash against Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts — in their opening statements.

But both told the committee’s chairman, Republican Rep. Andrew Garbarino, that they would commit to providing Congress the results of both of those investigations after they are completed.

Some of the strongest lines of questioning came from Rep. Eric Swalwell, who brought up Lyons’ previous comments that he sought to build a deportation system that was as efficient as Amazon.

Swalwell asked Lyons whether Amazon has ever shot a mother in the face or an ICU nurse in the back — references to Good and Pretti. Lyons responded no.

Swalwell then asked Lyons whether he would be open to apologizing to Good’s family for the way she was characterized by Trump administration officials as a terrorist almost immediately after her death.

“I welcome the opportunity to speak to the family in private,” Lyons responded, “but I’m not going to comment on any active investigation.”

Lyons refused to answer whether the way the Trump administration characterized both Good and Pretti was wrong.

ICE chief bristles at Nazi comparisons

Adolf Hitler’s murderous Third Reich was repeatedly invoked during the hearing, as Democrats used it as a comparison for everything ranging from Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino’s attire to the tactics used by federal authorities during their immigration crackdown.

Lyons was asked by Rep. Dan Goldman, a Democrat, if he knew if “other regimes in the 20th century required similar proof of citizenship?”

Lyons responded that

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