Earlier today, the news came that the International Equestrian Federation is entering with multi-million sums so that the Gothenburg Horse Show and the World Cup final can take place from March 31 to April 4 this spring.

- It means a lot, of course.

Gothenburg and the organizer have struggled with this for a long time.

The international federation has said that they want to support but have not been concrete until now, says the Swedish federation captain in jumping Henrik Ankarcrona to SVT Sport.

It has been a different season and the national team captain says that the desire to start competing again is there - especially after it has not been possible to qualify.

"It's quite complicated"

Due to the corona pandemic, last year's World Cup final had to be canceled, and the World Cup competitions, which were to be held in December and February, were canceled in Bordeaux and Mechelen.

Therefore, it is still unclear which riders will be allowed to participate in the World Cup final.

- Steve Guerdat is the reigning champion so he will get to ride in that capacity.

Then it's quite complicated, those who qualified for Las Vegas and ended up in place 2-11 still have their place.

The host countries in Europe in our league get a place each.

Plus we get an organizing place, so Sweden currently has two places that I will distribute.

What do you base your selection on?

- It is those who I think are ready for the task and who have horses that are up and running, who have experience and those I think can perform well there.

So it is a balancing act of many different aspects.

Normally I do not make competitions for this but it is individual competition but now the times are different.

Hope there will be competitions

Do you think there will be competitions?

- I can not possibly know.

I hope that it can be implemented and that it can be done in a safe way.

The organizers are good and work incredibly hard to be able to carry out the competitions.

But then it is the authorities who decide in the end, with restrictions and other things.

I can not believe anything, I can only hope.