Several Albanian-language online media outlets, on June 4 and 5, published an article claiming that Sweden has become the first country in the world to officially register sex as a sport and that, for the first time, on June 8, it will organize the European Sex Championship, which is expected to be held in Gothenburg, this country.
This article was first published by the Indian media outlet OpIndia.com. The content of this article includes an interview with Dragan Bratych, president of the Swedish Sex Federation. (see here)
However, after verification conducted by the fact-checking platform Snopes.com, which, like hibrid.info, is also a member of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), the claim that sex has been declared a sport has been found to be untrue.
Links to articles published in several online media in Albanian can be found here. here, here, here, here and here.
Snopes.com in its article dedicated to this event states that, in April of this year, the Swedish newspaper “Göteborgs-Posten” rejected the claims, stating that the Swedish Sex Federation’s application for membership had been rejected by the Swedish Sports Confederation (RF). (see here)
The chairman of the Swedish Sports Confederation, Björn Eriksson, spoke to Swedish media outlet tv4.se, saying that it is clear that sex is not part of their business.
"I hope this nonsense goes away. It will be a unanimous no from us", he said. (see here)
Analyze:
Albanian-language media have published an article claiming that Sweden has officially registered sex as a sport and will organize the "European Sex Championship".
This claim was first published by the Indian media outlet "OpIndia.com", which was later deemed false by the fact-checking platform "Snopes.com".
Sweden does not register sex as a sport and the "Swedish Sex Federation"'s application for membership was rejected by the Swedish Sports Federation.
Hibrid.info has assessed the article published by Albanian-language media as "Unverified Content".
Reasoning:
The “Unverified” rating is given to those media reports that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which have not been able to confirm the same due to the lack or non-possession of reliable sources.