However, the recent times have been dramatic for her. When everything was in port, the sponsors fixed and everything publicly transcended her club Triton and said no to giving her leave from her swim coach job.

However, it resolved with a club change to the nearby Lundaklubben Poseidon who hired her as a coach.

-I got a little fun. I thought damn, now I've got sponsors and gone out with this, this shouldn't stop me, she says.

Ida Marko-Varga has achieved her greatest success as a team swimmer with two World Cup bronzes in the short course and four European medals (one silver and three bronze) in the long course. She made her debut in the national team as a 13-year-old.

"Want Olympic medal"

She quit after the London 2012 Olympics, but made a comeback for the Rio Olympics where she participated and led Sweden to a fifth place on 4x100 meters freely.

- Obviously you want an Olympic medal, that's what I want. Now I have not proved anything, but Sarah (Sjöström), Michelle (Coleman) and Louise (Hansson) all have the potential to go to the final in the Olympics and the World Cup. If it is for everyone, then we are in the world top, says Marko-Varga, who is a two-child mother but together with the family has solved the life puzzle for an Olympic bet.

It was after a successful effort at the SM in the summer the comeback plans were born. Marko-Varga lined up for her swimmer to put together a team race and she was listed for the second fastest stretch time of 4x100 meters freely. Inspired by this, she also put up 200 meters of butterfly - and took gold.

- I was quite shocked that it went so quickly when I had barely trained, she says.

Lucky to fill

A few weeks later Sweden qualified for the Olympics by becoming six at 4x100 meters freely in the World Cup - with an emergency solution in the breaststroke Sophie Hansson as fourth swimmer.

- She didn't swim much faster than I did at the SM and 1.5 seconds slower than I did in Rio. I would never go into this if I didn't think it would, she says.

If she succeeds in her comeback, it can be a huge lift for Sweden. Since Marko-Varga left, there has been a gap in the freestyle that no one in the new generation has managed to fill.