Purpose: To analyze the structure of sport in order to clarify how alienation appears in sport since although the concept of alienation has been adopted as a viewpoint to examine sport, the concept has been used in various contexts in this field so far.
Methodology: The following sub-problems were adopted as the necessary steps to follow in the investigtion:
1. The concept of alienation, which was mainly based on Marx's concept, was analyzed in order to grasp the concept.
2. The structure of sport was analyzed to examine how the concept of alienation was applicable to the structure.
3. Some external factors of sport, which might cause sportsmen's alienation, were examined.
Results:
1. The concept of alienation has twofold meanings, i.e., alienation as externalizatton and as estrangemet.
2. Sportsmen are alienated from their achievement as the result of their externalization. This form of alienation is affirmative and inevitably arises in sport.
3. Sportsmen are alienated from their records as estrangement as the result of reification. Emphasis of the records may lead this form of alienation into negative one.
4. Achievements under external pressure may cause alienation from man's species being.
