All relays Charlotte Kalla ran for Sweden have been in the first team.

Until today.

On Saturday, the news came that Kalla was kicked out of the first team after weak results during the start of the World Cup.

Charlotte Kalla instead had to take care of the second leg in Sweden's second team.

Nor did it become a sunshine story.

Sweden was eleven seconds behind when Louise Lindström switched to Kalla.

It was a distance that just kept growing.

When Kalla came in for the next change, the clock stopped at 1.02.8 after leading Frida Karlsson in the first team.

A drop of over 50 seconds on that stretch.

- Today, the recovery was not there as I had hoped.

So I just tried to fight all the way and give Jenny as good a starting position as possible, she says after the relay.

That you can not feel what you want to feel right now, how is it?

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It's frustrating.

I'm not going to stick it under the chair. 

Jenny Solin and Moa Hansson drove the final distances for the second team, which came in tenth place, just under three minutes behind the winner Russia.

National team manager Anders Byström knows Charlotte Kalla after the difficult period.

- It is clear that it is a very tough situation for her, she has ridden all championships in the last decade and now feels that she is not where she wants to be of course.

So we must try to support her, he says to SVT Sport.

Sweden's first team came second after Moa Olsson sprinted down Norwegian Helene Marie Fossesholm in the race.