Seven-time F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton is Grand Prix racing's highest earner, but the Mercedes star is also among the world's top-ten highest-paid athletes for 2020 according to Forbes. Despite the global coronavirus pandemic which brought the world – and many professional sports – to a standstill last year, there was no off switch for the world's leading athletes in terms of their income. On the contrary, most of sport's mega stars enjoyed more income last year than in 2019. According to Forbes which took into account retainers, prize money and cash earned away from the sports arena, the ten highest-paid athletes in the world took home pretax gross earnings of $1.05 billion...
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