Recently darts was recognized as a sport in England according to a BBC article I read recently. Before I saw this article I had thought that darts was already a sport in England right behind football (the sport we in the USA call soccer), and cricket (the game played with a bat). Be that as it may darts now is officially a sport in England. I have also seen some articles promoting the value of the move:
The Times comments: ...great athleticism is not the definition of sport and demands that applicants show ‘physical agility’. Phil Taylor’s throwing action is as "Like a frieze on a Greek drinking vessel, body still, rock-steady, a classical study of physical perfection. The arm moves only from the elbow, a perfect technique. But what gives him the edge is his mind. Taylor’s mental strength gives him both his physical steadiness and his ability to hit doubles and close out legs and sets and matches.”
...darts is a physical skill that backed by mental strength and in fact that could very well work towards a definition of sport.
‘a notion that sport has to be good for you, that sport has to make a person morally and physically better. Sporting people are still keen to see sport as something that is virtuous. Virtuous because it is tiring, at the very least. We must recognize that this pursuit of virtue is a confusion when we come to definitions’.
...if we stick we the notion of sport as a marriage of physical skill and mental strength, then Darts definitely qualifies, whereas another recent applicant Chess, fails.
(Story : The Times - England)
It would be great if someday we could see darts as an Olympic sport that might rival archery or skeet shooting.
D.T.
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