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.