Lin Ivarsson critical: "Not received any clear motivation"

- In any case, my goal was to invest over the next season and aim for the Olympics.

It was my big dream.

It is not so easy to get downhill training yourself and outside the national team there are not many opportunities to train and invest in speed in Sweden, says Ivarsson.

When the ski association presented the alpine national team troops for next season, Lin Ivarsson's name was not included.

Lisa Hörnbladh, Ida Dannewitz and Jonna Luthman are instead the three speed skiers on the women's side who get the chance.

- I have not received any clear motivation.

It was that they should change the law and that I did not have a place then.

She is critical of the fact that the investment now ends when she feels that she has begun to gain the experience required to achieve results in the speed disciplines.

- It has always been a long-term investment in this with speed.

They have pressed for us to be good in five years and not now because it takes a long time to develop as a skier before you get the experience you need before you can attack a hill fully.

It is probably only now after three or four years in the World Cup that I feel I can push it.

The answer: "Progression has not been what we wanted"

Lars Melin is the national team manager and is responsible for the selection.

- We have Ida Dannewitz and Lisa Hörnbladh coming back now and the progression that Lin has had during the four years she has been with has not been as we have wanted, he says.

It is a pure competitive situation then?

- Yes it is.

Ivarson's best place in the world cup is a 21st place in super G 2019. During the past season she took two points in the downhill cup and a 29th place in downhill in the WC in Cortina.

- It feels sad if she takes it as if she is disappointed. It is not us who take skiers to the Olympics, it is SOK who has criteria that you should place yourself twice among the top fifteen and once among the top eight. When you look at Lin's development, she is not there, but it would have been someone that SOK had to take a stand on and not us, says Lars Melin.