Best-paid athletes from 182 countries

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=6391145

some interesting salaries there!

John O'Shea is Irelands top paid athlete. Graeme McDowell for the north.

Lewis Hamilton is Englands, which is kind of surprising.

Stan Wright of Leinster Rugby is the best for the Cook Islands.

Bristol Rovers are paying salaries of $480k now?!

Edit - and the Maltese league are paying a salary of over a million?!

And there's a really incredible amount of money in motor sports.

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

And there's a really incredible amount of money in motor sports.

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Wouldn't it be a bit skewed though, as a lot of the personal sponsorship money goes in via the teams in motorsports? Where as in football (for example) the personal sponsorship money would go direct to the player and not be included?

Bit unusual to describe earnings as 'annual salary' in the case of golf, boxing and a couple of other sports listed there.