Mutts Nuts
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Is Darts a sport - the definitive poll
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The Camel
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If that's your definition of sport, then boxing, ski jumping and wrestling aren't sports either.
I doubt anyone would agree with that.
You could always celebrate the 'skillsman' tag and look down at those 'sportsmen and women', genetics probably play a major part and that might just be luck anyway.
I do not see why darts/golf etc would find the tag as a skillsman a negative comment.
Try ,,,,, 'those javelin sportsmen, show very little SKILL just brute force'.
You watch those sportsmen will be crying out to be called skillsman !!!
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Pavilionaire
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The definition of 'sport' includes the words "physical exertion". I'd argue at the professional level there WAS sufficient physical exertion to justify it being a sport, what with the hours of training and playing on stage under the heat of the lights.
If you simply equate the activity performed down the pub or in a games room by you and me then probably not.
If you simply equate the activity performed down the pub or in a games room by you and me then probably not.
Tee hee, your kiddin'.
You think that at the top level the dart players show physical exertion
They may sweat, mainly due to lights, the pressure and their own low level of fitness, but beyond that they have NO real physical exertion.
Again some show great SKILL and psychological endurance and I acknowledge this and personally love watching it, but you cannot seriously wrap this up to be a sport in the context you offered.
skipper734
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Ha ha all these have been sports since all your great, great, great, great, great, great, great Granddads, were in what passed for nappies in those far off days.
Pavilionaire
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Tee hee, your kiddin'.
You think that at the top level the dart players show physical exertion
They may sweat, mainly due to lights, the pressure and their own low level of fitness, but beyond that they have NO real physical exertion.
Again some show great SKILL and psychological endurance and I acknowledge this and personally love watching it, but you cannot seriously wrap this up to be a sport in the context you offered.
Not just me mate, it's Sport England, Sport Wales, Sport Scotland and Sport Northern Ireland as well as the Sports Council that give grant monies to these 4 bodies.
If you listen to Phil Taylor talk about darts he always bangs on about the importance of eating right, getting rest and looking after yourself. I've seen players take to the stage after 11pm at night and wilt under the lights and the conditions because physically they're in poor shape.
Are you seriously putting Phil Taylors physique forward for some sort of example of a top sportsman, I admire his achievements as a skillsman but he is not competing within a sport but a competition that requires no physical prowess or athleticism.
Its a skill that requires many notable attributes but being a sportsman is not one of them.
So does Scrabble. As you said, it's a game. Not a sport.
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If you 'play' it, it's a game; if you 'go' it, it's a sport - i.e you go fishing, racing and hunting - you don't play fishing, racing or hunting. Therefore they're sports. You play football, chess and darts- you don't go football, chess or darts. Therefore they are games. Some games may be more athletic in nature than others, but they are games nonetheless.
melias shoes
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Darts is a game........a Pub game.
OzMike
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It is a game when the likes of you and I play it, just like tennis and golf, but it is a sport when it is practiced up to 8 hours a day as the professionals do, serious prized money is involved and endurance is required.
So, when pros play it is is a sport and when you or I play it is a game.
So, when pros play it is is a sport and when you or I play it is a game.
Plus, it is currently being shown on Sky SPORTS, not Sky Activities, or Sky Games and as Sky know everything, then Darts is definitely a Sport!
Sky Sports also shows WWE wrestling.
KZNSeagull
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MMMmmmm! Cribbage a sport....I'm up for that.....olympics here I come.
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