Oblicza wielkich imprez sportowych i ich ekonomiczne rezultaty dla państw współorganizujących

Modern sport, besides its based functions, more often consolidates with the word of politics and the economy of different countries. Special interest makes the great events of international importance, such as the Olympic Games, the largest, most expensive, most organizationally complicated and watched almost all over the world. These kind of events has most of all clear economic aspect. They require huge financial funds, bringing poten-tially considerable profit for the institutions involved. In Poland, the first sport event as the first huge event was organized together with Ukraine UEFA European Football Champion-ship UEFA Euro 2012, which awoke hopes for the calculated economic profits for the coun-try and cities organizing particular events (matches) belonging to the Euro. Is this event has paid off ? By the 2008 all Olympic games and sports events of international importance made profits. However, most of profits from the events goes to international organizations such as UEFA. Organizing major sports events can have its negatives. Knowledge of the problems in this area is the object of interest to researches, practitioners and authorities. The common mistakes involved overinvestment of sports facilities rarely used later in sports.