It's time for the season's first relay, a season where the Olympics in Beijing await in February, and Sweden's ladies have the opportunity to step up one step from the silver place in Pyeongchang.

If it had been an Olympic relay now, SVT Sports' expert Helena Ekholm's team would have looked like this.

- I think it feels pretty given.

I want to see the sisters Öberg, Linn Persson and Mona Brorsson and then a very good reserve in Anna Magnusson.

But there are several teams that will want to fight for the gold.

Among others, the reigning Olympic champion Belarus.

- There will be many but Norway is always good when it comes.

France is also such a team that will strike when it burns.

Belarus, yes they can be dangerous.