The reason for the effort of local autonomous entities for inducing international sports events such as the Olympics is because these events accompany many advantages in various fields such as political, economical, sociocultural. Therefore, this study aims to examine how sports events influence the regional development of local autonomous entities and how it is related to the development. The goal of this research is, first, to examine what a sports event is and whether it is necessary.Second, it is to examine how a sports event held by local autonomous entities affect the region.Third, it is to investigate whether the influence of the sports event in the region has correlation with the local development. In conclusion, it is examined in this study that sports events gave positive effects to the region and its inhabitants of the local autonomous entities economically, politically and socioculturally, and contributed greatly to the regional development.However, even though sports events positively influenced the regional development in many ways, there were also negative effects to the region and inhabitants of the local autonomous entities.