WATCH ANY PROFESSIONAL sports person arrive at their event this weekend and you are likely to see them wearing a pair of dustbin lid-sized headphones.
Listening to the music in a bid to relax and focus their mind on the job at hand is common practice and used by many athletes – but the sheer enormity of their equipment seems to have got out of hand.
The widespread popularity of Beats by rap legend Dr Dre in recent years has helped the cause and while top level footballers are often seen walking from the team bus to the dressing room, it is a trend clearly visible in most sports – as the slideshow below shows.
Rio Ferdinand
Isaac Sopoaga
Bjorn Helge Riise, Eddie Johnson and Clint Dempsey
Alasdair Stokosch and Sean Lamont
Thierry Henry
Michael Phelps
Cristiano Ronaldo
Bradley Wiggins
Mardy Gilyard
LeBron James
Katie Bell
Wilfried Zaha
Paddy Wallace and Andrew Trimble
Have your say… what do you make of huge headphones?
Poll Results:
Not for me, Jeff (184)
I don't leave the house without mine (55)
