Henrik Christiansen, pictured at a 2022 championship medal ceremony in Australia, is chasing medals in addition to chocolate muffins in his third Olympic Video games.
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Have you learnt the muffin man? His title is Henrik Christiansen, and he’s obsessive about the chocolate muffins on the Olympic Village.
The Norwegian swimmer, a three-time Olympian, is technically in Paris to compete within the males’s 800m and 1500m freestyle. However when he’s not chasing medals, he’s on the hunt for muffins.
In lower than per week, Christiansen, 27, has posted a whopping 11 TikTok movies documenting his deepening love for the chocolate treats, which he known as “the single greatest thing about the Olympic Village so far.”
The candy story seems to have began final week, earlier than the Olympic cauldron was even lit.
Christiansen posted an early assessment of some eating corridor meals, giving the “choccy muff” a perfect-plus score of 11 out of 10. He went again for extra the following day, posting a close-up of a gooey muffin towards the romantic opening bars of Bobby Caldwell’s “What You Won’t Do For Love.”
Issues shortly escalated from there, and inside days, Christiansen had formally declared himself the “Olympic muffin man.”
A few of his different movies present him strolling via the Olympic Village with a number of handfuls of muffins, having fun with the sundown with a muffin in hand (and on face) and getting caught in mattress subsequent to a drawer filled with pastries.
“Guys, I think I have a problem,” he captioned that one.
Considered one of his most viral movies, with over 1 million likes, is about to audio from the sketch present I Assume You Ought to Go away, during which the star of a Bachelorette-style competitors tells one contestant she feels he’s “only here for the zip line.”
“I feel like you’re only here for the chocolate muffin,” Norwegian swimmer Nicholas Lia tells Christiansen from throughout the desk. Christiansen responds with a confused look on his chocolate-smeared face.
The muffin saga has caught on shortly, on social media and in actual life.
TikTok commenters have known as it “the best story to come out of the Olympic Village,” “the only Olympic village love story that matters” and the spotlight of their day. A number of have expressed concern about how Christiansen will fare when he returns to Norway, and have even known as for a muffin firm to sponsor him.
Muffin fever appears to be spreading throughout the Olympic Village.
New Zealand swimmer Lewis Clareburt posted a video with Christiansen, captioning it, “I found the official Olympic village muffin man.” A TikTok consumer who recognized themself as an Olympic aide wrote that they have been searching for the chocolate muffins “but I’m pretty sure that Norwegian swimmer stole them all.”
“You’ll never find them,” Christiansen replied. Greater than 53,000 folks have favored his remark.
Olympians are leaping on the chocolate muffin bandwagon
Different Olympians have managed to get their palms on the elusive chocolate muffins, and are leaving equally rave evaluations.
Followers embody Stephen Nedoroscik, the American pommel horse specialist and movie star in his personal proper.
“There’s that filling of chocolate in the middle,” he informed PEOPLE on Tuesday. “It is delicious.”
His teammate, Brody Malone, additionally gave his excessive reward to the outlet: “I had my first one this morning … oh my gosh, they’re really good.”
Filipino-American gymnast Aleah Finnegan, competing for the Philippines, posted a TikTok video captioned “I understand the hype of these chocolate muffins in the village.”
And American track-and-field athlete Gabby Thomas taste-tested a muffin for a TikTok of her personal on Tuesday.
“This is the best chocolate muffin I’ve ever had,” she mentioned, chewing. “It tastes like a cupcake, it’s so moist. This is gonna be a problem.”
She rated the muffin a 9.8 out of 10 — a noticeably decrease rating than Christiansen gave it. However concern not, there’s an affordable rationalization.
“I’d rate it higher,” she wrote, “but they ran out when i tried to get it earlier so minus points for that.”
Naturally, viewers at dwelling are salivating too. They’re attempting to infer the place the muffins got here from, and developing with recipes to attempt to recreate them.
Now, as one commenter wrote, Christiansen might be able to deliver the style of his beloved choccy muffins dwelling with him.
