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We analysed referees’ performances in 1283 games from the top four European American football leagues in 2019-20 to bring you these findings. Key Findings:  Home-team advantage has disappeared from refereeing decisions since leagues have restarted. The number of fouls per game has remained consistent to pre-COVID matches, and while yellow cards for home teams has also stayed consistent, the average number of yellow cards per game awarded to away sides has decreased 20.2%[…]

You used to love getting out onto the trail, letting the sun warm your skin, and exploring nature. Then you had kids… Now you’re unsure how to still have fun in the sun with Jr. in tow. Don’t be afraid, we’ve put together a comprehensive guide to hiking with your tot designed to help you feel confident on your next kid-friendly adventure. This is not your typical “how-to” guide for hiking. There’s no briefing on the 10 needed hiking essentials (although you should probab[…]

RunRepeat, in partnership with The Professional Footballers' Association, has analysed 2,073 statements from commentators in 80 football matches from the 2019/20 season. This is the first time a study of this kind has been conducted to understand if there is a difference in the way the football media talks about players of different skin colour. The comments discussed 643 unique players of various races and skin tones. Key findings The findings show bias from commentator[…]

We spent over 300 hours reading 30+ scientific papers and analysing data from more than 350 running shoes that we tested in our lab to help you gain an in-depth understanding of heel-to-toe drop.  What is heel to toe drop? Heel to toe drop is the difference in height between the heel and forefoot in an athletic shoe. It’s measured in millimetres, going from 0 to 15mm in running shoes. It’s also called heel drop, shoe drop, shoe offset, heel differential, toe drop, pitch,[…]

After spending over 100 hours summarising 30 scientific studies and analysing over 450 models from RunRepeat’s shoe database, we’re delivering an ultimate guide that will answer all of your questions on high-top and low-top basketball shoes. For almost half a century, high-top shoes were a synonym for basketball footwear. As foot and ankle injuries are the most common injuries in basketball (source), it seemed logical that the high-tops provide better ankle support and o[…]

This analysis covers 29,190 results achieved by 354 Russian athletes, dispersed over 4,691 events, during the 1993-2019 period.  Given the current controversy regarding doping at the Olympic Games, with a specific focus on Russian athletes, we decided to see what the actual numbers have to say. For this purpose, we focused only on athletics (track and field) and analysed the results of Russian athletes who competed at the Summer Olympic Games during the 1993-2019 period.[…]

The world is in crisis because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Between government lockdowns, layoffs, furloughs, work from home mandates, school closures, and sports facility shutdowns, we wanted to understand how this virus is affecting the exercise habits of people around the globe.  We surveyed 12,913 participants from 139 countries between March 24th and March 30th to gather data on how Coronavirus has changed their physical activity routines. Surprisingly, people are exer[…]

In the face of this pandemic, some places are beginning their initial stages of reopening.  During so, people have had to go elsewhere to stay active and enjoy the benefits of exercise. With the disruption this crisis is having on the fitness industry, we wanted to understand how gym members feel about gyms reopening. We surveyed 10,824 gym members to learn if they plan to return to gyms upon reopening and whether they will be keeping their memberships or not. The survey[…]

For this study, we analysed 19.6 million results from over 16 thousand marathon races. We recently published our mega-study on the state of running, where we found that the world, and in particular, the marathoners from the US are getting slower. We became curious to see how the 50 individual states +D.C. are performing. Feel free to use any material from this page, as long as you refer to this original source. We've also created a tool that can help you compare your rac[…]

We, at RunRepeat, looked at the results of 18,260 games from the last 10 seasons of the top 5 European football leagues – Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 - to bring you some answers. Key Findings: La Liga and Premier League have been responsible for producing the most exciting title races in the last decade. 4 of the last 10 title races in both leagues have been decided on the final match-day. The average gap between the champions and the runners[…]