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Looking for an Edge? Wear Red

According to a recent study, wearing red can give you an edge when engaging in fighting sports.

In a study on Olympic uniforms, anthropologists at Durham University in England found that evenly matched athletes in the 2004 Games who wore red in boxing, tae kwon do, Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling defeated those wearing blue 60 percent of the time. The researchers suggested that red, for athletes as for animals, subconsciously symbolizes dominance.

Here's a link to the original study, and another link to the story in the Times.