The idea was that staff from the cross-country and biathlon national team's wall team would go to Beijing together with SOK's meteorologist Tomas Mårtensson during the holidays.
That trip is now canceled due to the uncertain quarantine rules along with the general corona situation in the world.
- We made a joint decision together with SOK, that we do not go.
We need to take care of our staff and keep everyone fresh.
We have to examine ourselves how we should distribute forces and where we should put the energy, says Petter Myhlback.
- I think we have more to lose than to gain from going over there.
We have been there in January 2020, and we do not think there is any difference now from how it was then, when we put it against the risks.
If we go on a rampage with the staff who would go there, then we have a really big problem, he continues.
Going in January instead
Instead, the same team goes to Beijing at the end of January, just over a week before the games and does the same preparatory work.
- It is clear that it would have been an advantage to have been there already now, but I am convinced that we will have time for that when we get there on 24 January.
I do not think one should magnify this too much.
It is a new environment for us, but the way we test is the same as in a regular World Cup competition, says Petter Myhlback.