5 Reasons Swedish Slopestyle Skier Henrik Harlaut is Hilarious

Author:
Brendan Maloy
Publish date:
Feb 14, 2014

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Sweden's Henrik Harlaut has captured the internet's heart over the last 24 hours, so we thought we would catalog some of his more endearing qualities. Harlaut is what would happen if you only let a child watch skiing tape, rap music videos, and Bob Marley documentaries growing up.

He wears huge pants and coats on the slopes

According to this interview on his website, Henrik prefers XXXXL sized gear, which lead to this happening during Slopestyle qualifying runs:

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Much like ODB before him, he is spreading the Gospel of the Wu-Tang Clan

He had this message for cameras after his medal round run:

He gives himself ridiculous nicknames

He seems to prefer E-Dollo, which itself is a contraction for another self-given name Bloody Dollaz. No word yet on what on earth either of those mean or where they came from. He also goes by the slight more reasonable Henni Lo.