ISL starts next weekend and the new competition series, which attracts most of the world elite, will be decided during the autumn with the final in Las Vegas on December 20-21.

Glasgow Short Course European Championships go on December 4-8.

- The Kortbane European Championships are not yet included in the planning. ISL will be the main focus and so you must have some time left for training as well. You have the Olympics in the back tanks, says Sjöström.

Sjöström became a historian last summer in South Korean Gwangju when, as the first woman, she took five individual World Cup medals, one gold, two silver and two bronze.

When the short course European Championship was decided in Copenhagen two years ago, Sjöström took three gold and three silver. But there is no new medal orgie in Glasgow. Besides the ISL, there are also thoughts at the Tokyo Olympics next summer.

- The ISL arrangement is perfect for me. There are two competitions now, then six weeks training, then one competition in London and six weeks training before the final in Las Vegas. It is the optimal arrangement if one is to think more long-term, ”she says.

The new money-laundering ISL tour, which is decided as a team competition, starts in American Indianapolis on October 5-6.