If you haven't already heard, the newest Forbes' 100 Top Paid Athletes list doesn't feature a single woman. It's 2018, and it seems that we are going backward. A Tweet by Ben Bloom, a journalist for Telegraph Sport, states that this is the first time in Forbes' history that a woman's name has not appeared on its Top Paid Athletes list.

The Top 100 came to fruition in 2012, so, in all reality, the Top 100 list is not all that old of a tradition. Prior to that, Top 50 was the headline of the time; stretch back even further and you will find a minimalist Top 25, dating back to 2007. But even in the 2007 list, Maria Sharapova claimed #25. Although the ranking accounts for both salary and paid-sponsorships, Sharapova still held her own in years to come, sitting at #29 in the Top 50 list from 2012. One woman has been on the list every year, if not more ever since the list grew from 25 to 50 noted in a Telegraph article.