Painting the town Red!

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In the Olympics, Chinese gymnasts wear red leotards . According to University of Durham researchers Russell Hill and Robert Barton in an issue of the journal Nature, wearing red consistently is associated with higher probability of winning. A 2004 study of Olympic athletes finds that those wearing red have an advantage over blue-suited competitors. American athletes also wear red but that was because red is in the U.S. flag. Chinese however have since time immemorial,regarded red as the lucky colour. Red is a must especially for a joyous occasion like Chinese New Year and presently as the Ox ushers in the New Year, Taiping and I presume all the Chinatowns in the world too, would be painted red...


Seeing red in Taiping...







Comments

Liudmila said…
Red on your photos is decisely very joyful. I don't know about winning -why everybody do not wears red in this case? If it was so, I'm sure, all the world would wear red every day.
28 January 2009 at 10:42
footiam said…
Scientists claimed that most of the athletes in the 2004 Olympic games who won wore red. They say monkeys evolve into man too!
28 January 2009 at 21:47
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