PDC world darts

[Mark TKO]

Kirklaind - you're right about athletic for sure.

Sport though

[Kirkland Laing]

Kirklaind - you're right about athletic for sure.

Sport though

The darts athletes are the fittest athletes in all of sports particularly since they stopped smoking while playing.



I can't find many videos of them drinking while playing and nothing worth posting but I remember the sponsors tried to stop it altogether after the first year of TV coverage. Probably explains it.



There's one though. Jocky falls off stage at the end.

[Mark TKO]

Can you believe the drinking whilst playing was banned 34 years ago....

I've said it before. Pistol shooting, clay pigeon shooting, curling etc..... All sports

[Beanz]

Can you believe the drinking whilst playing was banned 34 years ago....

I've said it before. Pistol shooting, clay pigeon shooting, curling etc..... All sports

I agree, Pistol shooting, Clay pigeon shooting even boring curling would be much improved by allowing the competitors to get properly tanked up whilst playing.

[Primo Carnera]

To be honest, I’m not sure whether you would Darts,Snooker, or even Golf sports nor whether you call them athletes.
But to be honest, I don’t care.
They deserve massive respect, and if someone were to criticise them, I would just say “can you do a 9 dart 501, or a 147 Break or even a hole in one?
Whether it’s a sport or a pastime , these guys are professional and have worked exceptionally hard to get to where they got.

[Mark TKO]

Yep you can easily separate athletes from sportsmen.

You could win world darts championship in early 80s with an 86 average.

Doubt you'd even qualify for it now with that

[Kirkland Laing]

Can you believe the drinking whilst playing was banned 34 years ago....

I've said it before. Pistol shooting, clay pigeon shooting, curling etc..... All sports

I agree, Pistol shooting, Clay pigeon shooting even boring curling would be much improved by allowing the competitors to get properly tanked up whilst playing.

For it to be true sport they all need to be pissed up, shooting and smoking at the same time.

And for the avoidance of all doubt, fat blokes throwing tungsten darts at a board is not in any way a sport. It just is not.

[palmerq]

I don't know, darts players look pretty sweaty and I associate sports and athletics with sweatiness...so on that basis I'm voting darts as an athletic sport... Just look at the weight Barney lost over the years :S...and Andy Fordham too!....

[Mark TKO]

Can you believe the drinking whilst playing was banned 34 years ago....

I've said it before. Pistol shooting, clay pigeon shooting, curling etc..... All sports

I agree, Pistol shooting, Clay pigeon shooting even boring curling would be much improved by allowing the competitors to get properly tanked up whilst playing.

For it to be true sport they all need to be pissed up, shooting and smoking at the same time.

And for the avoidance of all doubt, fat blokes throwing tungsten darts at a board is not in any way a sport. It just is not.

OK so would you agree pistol shooting, clay pigeon, archery, curling isn't either? Any others

Golf to a certain degree also

[Kirkland Laing]

Can you believe the drinking whilst playing was banned 34 years ago....

I've said it before. Pistol shooting, clay pigeon shooting, curling etc..... All sports

I agree, Pistol shooting, Clay pigeon shooting even boring curling would be much improved by allowing the competitors to get properly tanked up whilst playing.

For it to be true sport they all need to be pissed up, shooting and smoking at the same time.

And for the avoidance of all doubt, fat blokes throwing tungsten darts at a board is not in any way a sport. It just is not.

OK so would you agree pistol shooting, clay pigeon, archery, curling isn't either? Any others

Golf to a certain degree also

I struggle to see any of them as sports. Even golf. More like games than sports. Darts is just a pub game. The fat blokes play darts to a very high standard indeed and under great pressures but at the end of the day they're a bunch of fat blokes playing a pub game.