Editing Red (section)

== In sports ==
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The first known team sport to feature red uniforms was [[chariot racing]] during the late [[Roman Empire]]. The earliest races were between two chariots, one driver wearing red, the other white. Later, the number of teams was increased to four, including drivers in light green and sky blue. Twenty-five races were run in a day, with a total of one hundred chariots participating.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|last=Gibbon|first=Edward|publisher=Harcourt|year=1960|isbn=978-0151355372|editor-last=Low|editor-first=M. D.|location=New York|pages=554|oclc=402038}}</ref>

Today many sports teams throughout the world feature red on their uniforms. Along with [[blue]], red is the most commonly used non-white color in sports. Numerous national sports teams wear red, often through association with their national flags. A few of these teams feature the color as part of their nickname such as Spain (with their [[association football]] (soccer) national team nicknamed ''La Furia Roja'' or "The Red Fury") and Belgium (whose [[Belgium national football team|football team]] bears the nickname ''Rode Duivels'' or "Red Devils").

In club [[association football]] (soccer), red is a commonly used color throughout the world. Among European notable club teams most often playing at home in red shirts include [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]], [[S.L. Benfica|Benfica]], [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]], [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] and [[A.S. Roma|Roma]]. Furthermore, many prominent teams play in partially red color schemes, involving different-colored sleeves or stripes. A number of teams' nicknames feature the color. A red [[penalty card]] is issued to a player who commits a serious infraction: the player is immediately disqualified from further play and his team must continue with one fewer player for the game's duration.

[[Rosso Corsa]] is the red international motor racing color of cars entered by teams from Italy. Since the 1920s Italian race cars of [[Alfa Romeo]], [[Maserati]], [[Lancia]], and later [[Ferrari]] and [[Abarth]] have been painted with a color known as ''rosso corsa'' ("racing red"). National colors were mostly replaced in [[Formula One]] by commercial sponsor liveries in 1968, but unlike most other teams, Ferrari always kept the traditional red, although the shade of the color varies. [[Ducati Corse|Ducati]] traditionally run red factory bikes in motorcycle [[MotoGP|World Championship]] racing.

The color is commonly used for professional sports teams in Canada and the United States with eleven [[Major League Baseball]] teams, eleven [[National Hockey League]] teams, seven [[National Football League]] teams and eleven [[National Basketball Association]] teams prominently featuring some shade of the color. The color is also featured in the league logos of Major League Baseball, the National Football League and the National Basketball Association.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article3533300.ece|title=Teams with red shirts have a head start|last=Dart|first=Tom|date=Mar 12, 2008|work=Times Online|access-date=Apr 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629133533/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article3533300.ece|archive-date=June 29, 2011|url-status=dead|publisher=News International Group|location=London}}</ref> In the National Football League, a red flag is thrown by the head coach to challenge a referee's decision during the game. During the 1950s when red was strongly associated with [[communism]] in the United States, the modern [[Cincinnati Reds]] team was known as the "Redlegs" and the term was used on baseball cards. After the red scare faded, the team was known as the "Reds" again.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War|last=Cuordileone|first=Kyle A.|date=2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0415925990|location=New York|pages=13|oclc=56535047}}</ref>

In [[boxing]], red is often the color used on a fighter's gloves. [[George Foreman]] wore the same red trunks he used during his loss to [[Muhammad Ali]] when he defeated [[Michael Moorer]] 20 years later to regain the title he lost. Boxers named or nicknamed "red" include [[Red Burman]], [[Ernie Lopez|Ernie "Red" Lopez]], and his brother [[Danny Lopez (boxer)|Danny "Little Red" Lopez]].

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Winner of a Roman chariot race.jpg|Ancient Roman mosaic of the winner of a chariot race, wearing the colors of the red team
RS Redz.png|Both the [[Cleveland Guardians]] and the [[Boston Red Sox]] wear red.
Tamashiro-kata-Tampere-2006.jpg|In martial arts, a [[red belt (martial arts)|red belt]] shows a high degree of proficiency, second only, in some schools, to the black belt.
Alfa Romeo 33 SC 12 Sovralimentata 1977 red vr TCE.jpg|An [[Alfa Romeo]] Sports Racing car in 1977, painted [[Rosso Corsa]] ("racing red"), the traditional racing color of Italy from the 1920s until the late 1960s.
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