Recent cases of abusive and excessive behaviour in sports show the violent and traumatizing nature of modern sports. The athlete's body is often instrumentalized. In the case of trauma, the body is haunted by the past and dissociated from the present. By considering sports in light of Richard Kearney's carnal hermeneutics, this paper offers a view on the other side of sports, namely the healing potential. Inspired by phenomenology, Kearney discusses the possibility of an immanent transcendence, or of the world as the site of the sacred. The word becomes flesh in our embodied existence. What does this transformation (or: transubstantiation) mean for the embodied practice of sports? Can we reconnect with ourselves, our bodies, and others through sports? Moving beyond the instrumentalization of the body, this paper discusses the healing potential of sports after trauma.