Originally Posted by
Andy_Faber
Thanks for the usual tiresome ticking off but no I didn't miss your point, or rather your second point, which was 'I can’t think of another example of a sportsman/person who has profited more from one individual action'. As an existing national icon, Maradonna's financial and reputational profit from the hand of God was, I would suggest, incremental, wheras Armstrong elevated himself from a better than average but no better than that cyclist to a worldwide superstar and Sheryl Crowe's boyfriend FFS, AND amassed a wealth that is rumoured to have maxed out at $220m and is still over $50m.