André Pops (born 7 October 1972) is a Swedish

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and

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at the Swedish television station SVT. He has presented some of Sweden's most notable sporting events and has also won awards for his achievements.

Early years

Pops was born and raised in

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but moved to Stockholm in 1997. He is of

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and t ...

n descent from his father's side as his grandparents moved from

to Sweden during the

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TV-sporten

Pops studied journalism doing an internship at ''TV-sporten'' at SVT later on becoming a full-time host with them. He presented ''Vinterstudion'' which covered winter sports at SVT during the winter season and he also presented ''Olympiska vinterstudion'' during the

2010 Winter Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May Doan Nancy GreeneWayne Gr ...

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. During 2012 he presented the broadcasts from the

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held jointly in Poland and the Ukraine and a few weeks later the broadcast from the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England.

Other media

Pops was a sidekick in

Melodifestivalen 2007 Melodifestivalen 2007 was the selection for the 47th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 46th time that this system of picking a song has been used. Five heats took place to select the ten songs for the final, in ...

and was the spokesperson for Sweden during the voting at the

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the same year. He also presented the SVT broadcast from the Swedish national day celebrations in 2009 along with

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. Pops was chosen by SVT to host the Christmas celebrations on the channel in 2010. A majority of ''

Expressen ''Expressen'' (''The Express'') is one of two nationwide evening newspapers in Sweden, the other being '' Aftonbladet''. ''Expressen'' was founded in 1944; its symbol is a wasp and its slogans are "it stings" or "''Expressen'' to your rescue". ...

'' newspaper readers voted Pops as the best Swedish Christmas show host of all time. In 2013 he released the children's book ''Vinterkampen'' at Pinxto publishers.

Awards

Pops won the Kristall award for "Best sport television profile of the year" four consecutive time in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 during

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On 5 December 2011 Pops received the award for "Sports journalist of the Year" by Sportjournalistens Klubb Stockholm.

Personal life

Pops is married to Malin Runsten and the couple have four children.

References

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