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Pole Vaulting Champion Romain Mesnil ran naked with his pole through the streets of Paris to hoping to draw concentration for a new sponsorship deal. And the video of his naked run is now posted on YouTube.

It shows that worldwide financial downward spiral starts on to impact on the world of sports and in this critical economic situation, 31-year-old Romain Mesnil only used an unusual way to try to secure a new sponsorship contract. At the 2007 Athletics World Championships in Osaka, Mensil won a silver medal and at that time he was sponsored by Nike. But after expire it last year, Nike was not renewed. On his website he said that,

“It was probably for budgetary and strategic reasons. It’s the crisis.”

For this reason Mensil tries do something funny to get a new sponsor. Moreover, with looking for a sponsor he is hopeful to increase funds for two charities one to care for kids ill in hospital and the other for study into brain tumors.

Recently, lots of athletes face trouble of finding a suitable sponsorship deal as companies cut costs for the reason of the worldwide financial downturn. So now it is the time to see that is the funny effort of Mensil really works to get a new sponsorship.