Nils Palmgren: Stars shine – they can do it in Berlin

All indications are that the EM competitions at Berlin's Classic Olympic Stadium in a few weeks will be a sporting and public success.

The question is how much will it be fun with Swedish eyes?

The Swedish EM team is great, up to 44 athletes here. The Wednesday night gala in the heat of the classic Tingvalla at Karlstad was the last race in front of the European Championship, and many concerned the question of the points of questioning before the EM competitions

The established stars were delivering and there were questions about them. 19659002] * Daniel Ståhl released the entire disc of 69.11 meters, the most recent year for Järfälla and only 48 centimeters shorter than the worst medalist, Andriuz Gudzius of Lithuania. These two men are fighting for gold in Berlin, just as at the World Cup in London

* Armand Duplantis presented 5.80, since he shocked all the world to tear the input height 5.55 times. But the 18-year-old world champion (5.93) and the junior world champion have had a lot of fun this year. He was the security guard at 5.80 and up and won his first Diamond League gala. Bäva is the world star of French cinema Renaud Lavillenie.

* Angelica Bengtsson has once again shown which competitor she belongs to. Very cold, she got a new Swedish record, 4.73, after being almost out at 4:30. Bengtsson hit the bronze set at the EM in Amsterdam two years ago. In Berlin, she can repeat it, but if she wants to fight the gold, she must jump from a decimeter higher

* Andreas Kramer has won 800 meters in the new record of time 1.45.03. And it was amazing, but even better how he made all the world stars of Kenya flee and won the race. Can he run so aggressively and hard in Berlin, then there is a chance to medal.

These four gala gala at Karlstad.

But other positive Swedish surprises did not make it. On the contrary, unfortunately

Now, it was missing to Meraf Bahta who has an EM Gold (2014) and a Silver EM of 5000 meters (2016). But Bahta, who has competed a lot this year, is a question mark since she's collapsed at the Diamond League gala in Morocco.

Another medalist was missing at Karlstad, Lovisa Lindh. The 800 meter runner took a surprising bronze medal in 2016 and was heading for something big when she was injured last year.

Now she's harmless, but until now she's not close to the form she's had. In the company of Bahta, Lindh practices high altitude in the Swiss Alps. When they come to Berlin, they are two of the many Swedish interrogation points.

I hope that someone will be exclaimed, so the Berlin European Championship can be really fun with Swedish eyes seen.