Early Life
Demidov was born in Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, and is of Russian ethnicity. His father is handball player Sergei Demidov, who played internationally for the Soviet Union and later became a coach in Norway; the family moved to Sandefjord in 1989.
As a youngster, Demidov played both football and handball for IL Runar and was a big talent in both sports. When he was 15 his father told him that he had to choose between the two sports, and Demidov decided to quit handball; in an interview with FHM in 2011, he claimed that he could have been one of the top three handballers in the world if he had continued playing handball, but that he didn't want to walk in his father's footsteps.
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