Can Athletic Uniform Color Determine Winners and Losers?
Feb. 25
Dutch researchers Peter Dijkstra of the University of Glasgow and Paul Preenen of the University of Amsterdam have investigated the claim of a previous study that judo athletes wearing blue uniforms were more likely to win compared with those in white uniforms during the 2004 Olympics. Second, the researchers explained that athletes competing in the loser s pool also had a uniform color bias, since athletes in blue were more likely to have won their previous match. Perhaps due to these reasons, one study found that athletes in red have a winning bias over athletes in blue in a variety of sports, including men s Greco-Roman wrestling, freestyle wrestling, boxing, and tae kwon do.
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