The Swedish long season has been night black for long periods. The results have not been fulfilled and instead the major headlines have been about injuries, health problems - and poppy misses. Specifically, the last two competition weekends are on the retina.

The Swedish ladies have been incredibly disappointed after their race and have meant that the skis have been far too bad. So they said:

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Jonna Sundling and the election manager Anders Niemi. Photo: Photo Agency

The press is now big on the election manager Anders Niemi and the ball team to end the season strongly. This is the opinion of SVT's expert Mathias Fredriksson.

- Now we hope they deliver cannon skiing for the rest of the year. After that you have to evaluate the whaling team. If that doesn't work, you have to make a change. But changing the election manager now would be wrong. Anders Niemi will be able to show on coming weekends that he is the right man for the job, says Mathias Fredriksson.

What has gone wrong when you see it?

- I haven't been to any competition and it's hard to sit on a TV couch and see what's wrong. But to ski like you and I do, it's not that difficult. Then you can read on the jar and then you put it on. In order to choose skiing for a world cup competition, there are additional parameters. You chase the last few seconds and in that hunt there are more and more things about can be wrong.

- But if a whaling team misses a weekend a year, you can expect, but you want to minimize the number of mistakes.

Next year the World Cup is waiting in Oberstdorf. When do you start preparing for the coming season?

- It starts right after the competition season is over - so already in the spring. That process never really stops. If you talk about championships, you usually lie and test material the years before, at the time of the year when the championship should go.

What responsibility does the election manager Anders Niemi have in this?

- He is a whale manager so he has the ultimate responsibility. He is the one who makes the decisions. Now he came in very late this season which was not optimal, but he is the one to put together a team that works.

He got fired after last season after the riders complained. Given what it looks like this year, can he remain in his position next season?

- If you say so, either he got fired on the wrong grounds or he was reinstated on the wrong grounds. But it is important for the whaling team and for the skiers that you have good skis the rest of the season for confidence and calm to reappear and it is wrong to say about the next season already.