- I accepted the job in January, when the World Cup was canceled, then it came back on the program, it crashes quite hard and I can not be away ten days.

I decided to make a good bet at the European Championships (in August) and saw the team race here at the World Cup, says Seeliger.

Now it will be at least an intense weekend with a Swedish team competition of 4x100 m freestyle and hopes for the quartet, the first men's team in eleven years.

- Our biggest is to get to the final.

Russia and the Netherlands are missing, so it's a pretty good chance.

Just beaten by the Olympic gold medalist

Seeliger definitely contributes to the expectations after an impressive college season with the California Golden Bears at the University of Berkeley, California.

The 22-year-old has done super-times in both the 50 and 100-yard freestyle (18.27 and 40.75, respectively) at the NCAA national championships, in addition to the eyes of the only one who swam faster in history, seven-time Olympic gold medalist Caeleb Dressel.

- He was very, eh ... I should not say impressed, but he thought it was in the right direction.

He loves to share with others, a bit of a swimming nerd like me and thought that I have good length in my armpits and that I do not just crank, says Seeliger who has done his second year in college and has a long-term plan for the Summer Olympics in Paris.

Is there a risk that you will beat him in the future?

- Haha, that's his problem!

Dizzying summer

A year ago, Södertäljekillen experienced his most dizzying period in life, in one week he lost his father to cancer and still qualified for the Olympics in Tokyo in the 50 m freestyle.

- If you think back on it, it feels like it just went by in a flash.

Everything just happened, an incredible experience, so to take advantage of it I wrote down a lot so you do not forget small details that happened.

Sometimes I go back and read to remind myself.

To the extent that he has time to stop, for the summer of 2022, the hectic will get worse.

Summer job, World Cup debut and then the European Championships in Rome in August.

In anticipation of a new college season in the United States.

A man of the future is ready.

THE ENTIRE REPORT: Björn Seeliger before the World Swimming Championships