Early on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the invasion of Ukraine had begun.
Reports of ground troops entering Ukraine, bombings across the country and a series of deaths have since followed during the morning.
At the same time, a world cup competition in skicross will be held in Russian Solnetjnaja Dolina this weekend - and in addition to the Olympic champion Sandra Näslund and the others in the Swedish national team, there are a number of other national teams.
"Not worried about the place"
The cross-country skiers are far from Ukraine geographically and the first bids from the Swedish Ski Association were that Sandra Näslund and the other Swedes should be allowed to compete.
- Now we are in place, they are training right now and it does not seem to be worrying in place.
Now we are putting the puzzle with Fis, how to think and act in a situation like this, said Tommy Eliasson Winter, alpine manager at the association, to TT on Thursday morning.
When the plane was taken from China, the situation was not so serious, he says, and points out that the situation is not common and that it is therefore difficult to know the procedure.
Uncertain about the journey home
In this now, the Swedish Ski Association is investigating opportunities to travel home safely.
- We look at different home trips.
The competition is almost already underway, so the big question right now is how to get home safely, whether it is before, during or after the competition.
Even if the association would like to send the Swedish national team home before the competitions, it can be difficult to get.
- I'm not sure how it would go in such a short time.
We do not know if that possibility exists now.
Almost the entire World Cup came with a common plan from Beijing and everyone is in the same boat.
Security urgent issue
Later, the Swedish Ski Association came with the message that no skiers will compete in Russia in the future, which included the cross-country skiers who are already in place.
- It is a great celebration, says the Ski Association's chairman Karin Mattson to TT.
The journey home is still a question mark.
- We are working on it, this is not a place that is completely right to travel from.
We want to avoid changes in the flights and for this gang, the safety aspect is a more urgent issue.
The most important thing for us is that they come home safely.
The ski association therefore asks the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for help and advice before the trip home.
- We are not experts on the security issue, we are pure lay people, so we must have their help to assess the situation.
- The leaders who are over there and have the responsibility, they carry a great burden.
They are not an enviable situation, says Mattsson.
Tried conversation with Fis
In recent weeks, the association has tried to persuade Fis to move the competitions, but without success.
Therefore, they now choose not to let the skiers participate - neither now nor in the cross-country ski world cup final which is planned to be held in Russian Tiumen on 18-20 March.
On Thursday morning, Fis announced to the Austrian news agency Apa that it is conducting the ski cross competitions as planned, as the area in Russia where the competitions are held is not directly affected by the conflict.
This weekend, Näslund would have had the opportunity to secure the overall victory in the World Cup.
TT has applied for Sandra Näslund, who has chosen not to be interviewed.