The scene is set in Stockholm on Thursday evening for something spectacular and will the roar from Gothenburg make its way to the Swedish captial?
Eleven months ago, the noise was booming as Abeba Aregawi and Emma Green Tregaro both won medals for the host nation at the European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Now the attention turns to the XL Galan where they are both in action, each with a different mission.Aregawi, who progressed to win the 1500m in Göteborg and then repeat her glory at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow in August, was so close to the European record at this meeting last year. Her time then was 3:58.40, a personal best she will look to beat in an attempt to overtake the record set in 2006 by Russian Yelena Soboleva.
Then it was still the world record but that mark now has a new owner after Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba ran 3:55.17 in Karlsruhe last Saturday.But Aregawi has such immense support from the Swedish crowd that if she is on course to break the European record, such will be the vocal backing for her.
It would be the perfect way for Aregawi to set herself up for the World Indoor Championships in Sopot next month where a duel with Dibaba - who runs the 3000m this evening - could be something special.Fan favoutrite, Green Tregaro, has started this year in fine fashion by winning the Moravia High Jump tour with jumps of 1.97m and has vowed to go higher.
She was actually beaten in the second event of the tour by Russia's Mariya Kuchina and the pair go head to head again on Thursday night.
The Swede is using a new run-up technique, which she implemented before Moscow, that she feels can utilise her physique better.
In the men's long jump, Michel Torneus will try to recapture the magic from Gothenburg as it was there that he achieved his personal best of 8.29m right behind Russia's Aeksandr Menkov.
There will be a Nordic showdown in the women's 60m with Sweden's Irene Ekelund facing Norway's Ezinne Okparaebo, but Verena Sailer of Germany could well steal the show after a strong start to the indoor season.
Ekelund will run twice on this night as she will also be competing in the 200m.
Four European women top the world pole vault rankings and two of them face each other in Stockholm.Germany's Silke Spiegelburg and Jirina Svobodova, of the Czech Republic, will compete in an event where their 4.71m leads the way in 2014. They will face 2011 world champion Brazil’s Fabiana Murer and local star Angelica Bengtsson.