será vermelho?

[E não é que, ultimamente, o vermelho tem triunfado? Pelo menos estes últimos meses. O Benfica venceu o Sporting, o CSKA (que equipa de vermelho), venceu o Sporting... coincidências, é certo. Assim como é coincidência, presumo, que o Benfica tenha estagiado em Óbidos antes de jogar com o Sporting, e venceu, e o CSKA tenha estagiado em Óbidos antes de eliminar o Sporting da Taça UEFA... uhmmm. Por esta ordem de ideias, como o Benfica está a estagiar em Óbidos agora, será campeão nacional. Será?]


If You Want to Win in Sports, Wear Red
If winning is everything, British anthropologists have some advice: Wear red. Their survey of four sports at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens shows competitors were more likely to win their contests if they wore red uniforms or red body armor.
"Across a range of sports, we find that wearing red is consistently associated with a higher probability of winning," report Russell A. Hill and Robert A. Barton of the University of Durham in England. Their findings are in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
Red coloration is associated with aggression in many animals. Often it is sexually selected so that scarlet markings signal male dominance.
Just think of the red stripes on the scowling face of the male Mandrill, Africa's largest monkey species. But red is not exclusively a male trait. It's the female black widow spider that is venomous and displays a menacing red dot on her abdomen.
Similarly, the color's effect also may subconsciously intimidate opponents in athletic contests, especially when the athletes are equal in skill and strength, the researchers suggest.
In their survey, the anthropologists analyzed the results of four combat sports at the summer games: boxing, tae kwon do, Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling.
in AP