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First of all it needs to have competition. If you are playing bat and ball with your granny on Scarborough beach it does not become a sport until you put up a net and say ‘first to 15’. Darts clearly has that competitive element.
Secondly, sport demands hand to eye co-ordination. Darts is surely the essence of that particular skill.
The third factor is that you get better by practice. It’s clear that if you had Phil Taylor showing you how to throw darts properly, you’d be a better darts player in a month’s time than you are now".
These could also apply to a game of Tiddlywinks. To be an Olympic sport its got to be played by amateurs for their country. Although I question tennis myself.
To be an Olympic sport its got to be played by amateurs for their country. Although I question tennis myself.ji
Doesn’t that also rule out athletics?
To be an Olympic sport its got to be played by amateurs for their country. Although I question tennis myself.ji
Doesn’t that also rule out athletics?
It should if they paid, but is it just sponsorship.
The truth is the Olympic Games are no longer the Olympic Games just a modern gathering of as many sports and games that can be squeezed in. The World Games would be a much more fitting title.
The original games were like friendly wars between the best Athletes and fighters from different areas of Greece.
Darts may actually have more place in the games than many other sports/games. Throwing the spear and Archery were among the original games. Not that I am a supporter of their place in the games but it is a valid point that someone, who is, can easily make.
For me if a sport/game has no connection whatsoever with war strength and endurance then it has no place in thee "Olympic Games"
The Olympic Games as they were meant to be died years ago.
The original games were like friendly wars between the best Athletes and fighters from different areas of Greece.
For me if a sport/game has no connection whatsoever with war, strength and endurance then it has no place in thee "Olympic Games"
When the WPBSA actually did suggest snooker should become an Olympic sport, I recall someone quipping that its relevance to the warring/fighting/physical ‘Ideal’ was justified as it could be used to "bore the enemy to death"
Which is nearly as amusing as Des Lynam’s "going down the pub isn’t an Olympic sport…yet, but beach volleyball is"
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