The best paid athlete of all time (for which you may have never even heard of)

Every day we witness expensive transfers, as well as funny the amounts companies pay for advertising to individual athletes.

Tiger Woods, the best-paid athletes of our time, has already become a billionaire.But Tiger wealth is not even close to the one that was during his 24-year-old career gained Roman runner chariot - Gaj Apulej DIOKOM (lat. Gaius Appuleius Diocles), an athlete who has earned so much sesterces (Roman silver coins) that in today's world, his wealth worth about 15 billion dollars - enough to keep a fifth of the Roman army at its peak, or to pay a year's supply of grain in ancient Rome.

DIOKOM began his career with 18 years, and it took an incredible 24 years. We say incredible, because many of the participants in this dangerous sport, died very young. Carriage ride was something like today's race cars, 7 laps around the track, with one exception - they were all armed with a sword in the event that their place was the driver of the carriage too close ...

During his career, DIOKOM participated in the 4257 race and won in 1462, the 1,483 runners took second or third place. Almost always drove a chariot with four horses, and in this category was far better than its competitors.

Having retired from the sport at the age of 42 years, DIOKOM got his monument in Rome, who raised him along with other coachmen audience that he simply adored - and all this is the reason why we know so much about his life pojedinsoti. Many have written about it, and fortunately, many of these records have been preserved to this day.

DIOKOM, born in Lusitania in the 2nd century AD, was illiterate athletes who even today no one has managed to surpass (the wealth). During his career he earned a whopping 35,863,120 sesterces - enough to feed grain Rome for an entire year, or converted to today's value - about $ 15 billion!