An application submitted to the Swedish Sports Confederation (RF by its initials in Swedish) to introduce a group called “The Swedish Sex Federation” as a sport was denied, contrary to claims shared online that Sweden has declared it would hold championships for sex.
One post (here) reads, in part, “Sweden has officially declared sex as a sport and finalized arrangements to launch its maiden sex tournament on Thursday, June 8.”
Swedish publication Goteborgs-Posten reported on April 26, 2023 (here) that Dragan Bratic, a man who formed “The Swedish Sex Federation,” submitted an application for the organization to become a part of the RF in January 2023.
Its website calls it “the only organization in the world that practices sex as a sport.”
The application, however, was rejected by the RF according to a April 26, 2023 press release (here).
“The Swedish Sports Confederation has drawn attention to the fact that in some parts of the international media news is currently being spread that a Sex federation has become member of The Swedish Sports Confederation,” Anna Setzman, a spokesperson for the RF said in an email to Reuters. “It is false information with the aim of smearing Swedish sports and Sweden.”
“There is no Sex Federation that is a member of the Swedish Sports Confederation,” Setzman added.
The organization is not listed under the list of organizations under the RF (here).
False. Sweden did not declare sex an official a sport.
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(Source: Reuters)
