Saturday, July 14, 2018

How watching the World Cup final might affect your health

Croatia fans after Croatia beat England in the semi finals

France and Croatia’s soccer teams will face off this weekend in a World Cup final that’s sure to make pulses spike. After all, Apple Watches registered soaring heart rates when the World Cup match between Colombia and England ended in a close penalty shootout, The Independent reports. Days later when Croatia played Russia, Verge tech editor Natt Garun’s Fitbit recorded her heart rate rise above 100 beats per minute as she watched the game.

“It was a tense game!” she told me in a Slack message. “When it went to penalty, I was literally holding my face.” The last time she’d seen her pulse spike like that while seated, she was on a roller coaster. It didn’t stop there: in the semifinal match when Croatia beat England in overtime to claim a...

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