Unlike the World Cup where the athletics association nominates the active, the Swedish Olympic Committee, SOK, which takes active to the Olympics. One rule of thumb for being selected is that you have the chance to become top eight. The most attractive support at SOK is Top and Talent. It is the various unions that are applying for their active support for this support.

“We have a talent selection for new talent on December 2-4. The Swedish Athletics Association nominates those who they think should come to the selection for us at SOK. I suppose SFIF nominates Kalle to that selection, ”writes one of SOK's sports managers Thomas Engdahl, who was the associate captain for the athletics national team, to SVT Sport in a text message.

List to proceed to SOK

Karin Torneklint, the national team in athletics, returned home from the World Cup in Doha tonight with a list to move on to SOK and is releasing two names already:

- Kalle is given and he was already before the World Cup. We have nominated him in previous years as well and continue to nominate him. He is now definitely a class better, says Torneklint.

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Kalle Berglund Photo: Photo Agency

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Kalle Berglund made it easy to the semi-finals. Photo: TT

Ball striker Fanny Roos has also had a strong season and is eighth on this year's world best list with 19.06. She did not reach the final in Doha after making one of the season's worst contests in the qualifier with 18.01.

- Fanny Roos is also given, also one that we nominated before but did not come with, says Torneklint and says that other names are also relevant but that they take them in dialogue with SOK.

- So that we do not nominate a lot of people who have no chance of getting any support.

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Fiasco qualification for Fanny Roos, who missed the final. Photo: Photo Agency

"There have been some compromises"

To be included in the support program would mean a lot to Berglund.

- I am not included in the top and talent at SOK and hope to come along there and get some more support and go to more training camps and make my investment one hundred percent. There have been some compromises this season but that is how it is. I will start my training against the Olympics in three weeks, Berglund told SVT Sport shortly after the World Cup finals, the first global championship final of 1500 meters (Olympic or World Cup) a Swedish gentleman participated in since 1960 when Dan Waern was four in the Olympics in Rome.

Tilde Johansson is available with SOK's support program

Cross-country skier Tilde Johansson, 18, was 6.45 in the qualifier five centimeters from reaching the final and is part of one of the SOK programs aimed at the younger athletes.

- There I get to argue with SOK about which of the active people they want to move up, says Torneklint about what that support should look like.

Torneklint explains the benefits of being included in SOK's support group:

- It means money for the investment you make, which can go to camps, coaches compensation, rehab treatments depending on what you need. Then you can also apply for a scholarship that can cover rent and food. In addition, there are resources in the form of dieticians. It is very attractive for the active to receive this support. We as unions do not have the resources at all.