It was in an interview last week that skating star Nils van der Poel said that it would be unwise to comment on sensitive issues such as human rights and freedom of expression regarding the world's largest dictatorship - China.
Next week, the Olympics start in Beijing and before the championship, the Swedish Olympic Committee, SOK, has had a mandatory training with Civil Right Defenders for everyone in the Swedish squad.
And the council is generally not to express themselves politically about the country.
- Our normal advice is to prepare for the Olympics in these last weeks.
It is clear that it can be some form of distraction to take a clear political fight against the country you are coming to, but it is not something we forbid, says Lars Markusson, media manager SOK, in Aktuellt.
Slalom skier Krisoffer Jakobsen, 27, does not feel particularly worried before leaving.
- Not a bit - I shit most of the time, he says and adds.
- I may not come home, he laughs jokingly.