The Swedish floorball ladies took their seventh straight World Cup gold today when they beat the host nation Switzerland in the final in Neuchatel. It is a hugely impressive achievement by a hugely impressive team of elite women's sports.
That team is probably the most positive national team interior. The problem is that the list of negative things can be made long.
You can start with the framing around the final match. After the conditions it was a crowd party with a crowded hall and the home team in the final, but the conditions were not much to cheer for.
You played of course in what is the main hall of the championship, but when you see it you can't believe it. It looks like a concrete pastime from a bygone era - outdated and with narrow corridors. It does not take more than 4,000 spectators and to cover one of the short side's stands, red plastic chairs have been erased on the stand.
But if the hall is small, will it be good pressure? Yes, that is true to some extent and during Switzerland matches it has been full, but it is also the only times.
The B-hall is of course even worse. It is simply a gymnasium in a high school model larger.
According to John Liljelund, secretary general of the International Indoor Association, the reason for playing in the hall is that the Swiss Confederation has wanted to spread the interior to the French-speaking part of the country (where the sport is less than in the German-speaking) and then this was the best option .
It is interesting to make the comparison with the men's World Cup in Prague last year where the final was a public party in the proper sense with 16,000 at the stands in the final between Sweden and Finland. Next year, the men's World Cup will be played in Helsinki and then the final matches will take place in the country's largest inhumane arena.
Liljelund also told us that there were about 1,500 more who wanted to see the final in place, but who can not because of the arena's capacity. Can the floorline, and especially the ladies bandage, afford to shut them out as the possible gain is a greater interest in French-speaking Switzerland?
To some extent, the floor meaning can still hide behind the fact that you are a "young sport" and that is also what makes you still drawn with scornfully called something "that belongs on the school gym." But at least the curves should at least point in the right direction and they are not doing so in any clear way right now.
Sweden's 26-2 victory in the quarter-finals once again opened up the discussion about the big differences and when Liljelund says that "there is no real chance" that these gaps will narrow soon, it is easy to lose hope.
Right now, you are looking at everything from tournament format to how the matches should look. Fewer players and shorter games are suggestions that have already been tested a little lightly and for me that type of action is nothing but crisis symptoms. A sport that feels good does not change the rules very much.
One thing that speaks to the floor idea is that you seem to have decent medical insight and you look pragmatically at the possible Olympic status that you have so long struggled for. It will not happen in the near future and then it is better to focus on the World Cup where there is work to be done.
But there is one thing that is more important than anything else for the floor decor and that is the job that people like Anna Wijk, Isabell Krantz, Emelie Wibron and the other Swedes do all the time, every day. You handle the floorball as the elite sport it is - you win and lead by example.
When you see that the Germans are barely warming up for a quarterfinals because they are beaten beforehand, at the same time you see a focused blue-yellow team that has prepared in the best way to go to the World Cup semi-finals.
It would be easy to give up when you are engaged in a sport that in many aspects stomps in place - but instead you change up and become world champion again.