These days, big sports events have become so expensive and profit-oriented that they cannot do without sponsors. If, then how has it affected sport’s original Olympic spirit?

To start with, sport has turned really costly over the years. Those taking it up professionally are in need of a sponsorship to finance their equipment and training. Moreover, people starting to do sports are often disappointed with their results. Therefore they tend to take steroids or do drugs and erythropoietin to boost their abilities. Pharmaceutical companies try to invent an undetectable enhancement so that the worse ones can cheat easily. Then they participate in numerous competitions and influence their real results.

Nevertheless, there are contestants that have not been discouraged by a failure. It made them work even harder to achieve a success. Also, these people have started training their disciplines since their teenage years. And as they say: ‘practice makes perfect’. What is more, to participate in really huge sports events one has to undergo a series of tests in order to find out if they have used any forbidden drug enhancement. Additionally, the example of Polish handball players shows that money is not the value that every participator strives for. These men have agreed to attend European Championship Tournament for free when there were troubles finding a sponsor for them.

All in all, nowadays sports may show certain symptoms of becoming commercialized and drugs-dependent. Nonetheless, there are examples standing out, giving hope that the real Olympic spirit of sport has not been lost yet.