Just heard on the radio that the very earliest that the International Olympic Committee would consider making darts an olympic sport would be 2024.
I thought it was a spoof news item at first but apparently it’s deadly serious.
Commentator Tony Green will no doubt have hung up his microphone by then, sadly…
No other darts scorer has ever matched his enthusiastic intoning of "one hundred and EIGH…teee". They all try to impersonate him but it just doesn’t work.
Meanwhile, proof that Clare Balding really does get everywhere. Richard Kay, in the much-criticised Dail Mail, has revealed that Clare was "spotted among the beer-swigging revellers" at the darts world championships on Saturday.
It was part of a treat for her brother, Andrew, who was celebrating his 40th birthday.
Andrew said: "It has become an annual pilgrimage for the Balding family."
Going on a jolly to the darts certainly beats a trip up the A1 to Musselburgh, it would seem.
History doesn’t relate whether Nicky Henderson also made the pilgrimage to the darts…