Right now, the National Sports Meeting is taking place in Uppsala. Saturday's hottest topic: safe sports. A total of ten motions had been received proposing changes on the subject.

After a long debate, the decision at the Annual General Meeting was, as an overall response to the motions, to vote through the Swedish Sports Agency's proposal: to appoint a major investigation and an "executive committee" – which will not present measures until two years from now, at the National Sports Meeting 2025.

Far too slow according to Johan Peterson Adlergren, chairman of the non-profit organization Safesport Sweden. He himself was behind several of the motions and is critical of the fact that they did not go through while waiting for the major inquiry's response.

"The proposals we made were fairly simple measures to get a better environment (for safe sports) during the two years that the investigation is ongoing," he says.

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Safesport Sweden's criticism: "Takes far too long"

But according to Björn Eriksson, the outgoing chairman of the Swedish Sports Confederation, it is better to wait and do a thorough analysis than to rush something here and now.

– We have bitter experiences of changing to solve something urgent. But in the end, so much has been taped and repaired on the old system that it is no longer possible," he says.

"The view of violations has changed"

Several of the Safe Sports motions were proposed amendments to the Foundation's statutes, chapter 14, which deals with punishment cases. The regulations are used, for example, to assess whether a leader who has behaved inappropriately should be punished with a fine or suspension.

Is the definition in the statutes clear enough?

"As they are today, no. But it is also because the view of violations has changed. What might have been acceptable in the past is not acceptable today. Therefore, I am pleased with the AGM's decision, we will start this work (with the investigation) already on Monday, says Björn Eriksson.