This shows the trend of the Forbes Richest Athletes from 1990-2021. This visualizations shows that there is almost a yearly increase in the amount of money that the richest athlete makes. It is interesting to note that there are a few very high points, which indicates that some of the athletes of recent history have made almost 300 million dollars from their sport, which is absurd compared to what the athletes of old. It makes it fair to assume that these numbers will only continue to increase to unfathomable numbers in the future.