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One of the local rags produces a list each year of the top Australian sports earners. This includes money from winnings, salary, sponsors and other sports related income. Although it gets a bit dubious on Greg Norman, a lot of his is from golf course design, but hey its sports related and he only gets it because he is a famous sportsman.

The top 10 part of the list is normally dominated by golf and soccer, throw in the occasional basketball, baseball player and maybe a boxer or motorsport person.
This year it was interesting to see a few bike racers near the top. What was interesting was that Stoner wasnt in the top 10 and was only the 3rd placed of motorcyclists! Beaten by Chad Reed and Mat Mladin (but a lot more than Troy Bayliss)

I know people ask why someone would want to race US superbikes compared to MotoGP - maybe money!

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