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Elite athletes in most sports, such as track and field, weightlifting, cycling, rowing, swimming, skiing, are less likely to have done intensive training at a young age than the near-elite athletes. [1] NCAA Division I athletes tended to play multiple sports in high school, and only one in six specialized in a single sport before the age of 12. [3]
This is a list of the largest sports contracts. These figures include signing bonuses but exclude options, buyouts , and the endorsement deals. This list does not reflect the highest annual salaries or career earnings, only the top 100 largest contracts and thus is largely limited to athletes in team sports and auto racing .
Sport Country Total Salary/winnings Endorsements 1: Cristiano Ronaldo: Association football: Portugal: $260 million: $200 million: $60 million 2: Jon Rahm: Golf: Spain: $218 million: $198 million: $20 million 3: Lionel Messi: Association football: Argentina: $135 million: $65 million: $70 million 4: LeBron James: Basketball: United States: $128 ...
American sports wouldn't be what they are today without the trailblazing black athletes of years past. From household names like Jackie Robinson to more recent history-makers like Vonetta Flowers ...
"The Truth" = Paul Pierce, United States basketball player [124] "Turbo" = Deni Avdija , Israeli Small forward "U.D." = Udonis Haslem , American power forward [ 125 ]
Male sportspeople, organized by sport. See also the following categories (which are omitted below, because each has a subcategory for female players of that sport ...
This is a list of professional sports – that is, sports (and, more broadly, non-sport games subject to organized competition) that support one or more systems of professional sports players, sportspeople by occupation. Such sports also have a vibrant community of amateur players, from whom the best rise to become professionals.