Abstract: It is generally believed that sports law is a new legal department emerging in modern times.However,the practice to regulate various sports activities existed in ancient Rome.The texts in Roman law show that sports law can be found in those rules of regulating the special legal status of athletes and recognizing the responsibility from injury in sports.Accordingly the former include exempting from civil duties,tutela,military service and reception,ignominia and requiring a status of knight,all privileges of which must be based on the condition that the athletes belong to Ingenuus.The latter include exempting from the responsibility for the injury by negligence in contest.The issues of sports law in ancient times and modern ones have a huge similarity,proving that sports law existed in ancient Rome.