Luke Littler settles ‘is darts a sport or pastime’ debate with staunch reply
Is darts a sport? Oof, that is a tough one.
Fans have been arguing about this one for many years and nobody has actually give you a conclusive reply. On the one hand, it is a recreation centred round talent, nerve and approach, very like soccer, boxing or another so-called traditional sport.
But however, can a recreation whose origins derive from smoky pub back-rooms, and whose stars sometimes have bellies stretching foot or so over the sting of the oche, actually be considered a bodily pursuit? After all, that is what the overwhelming majority of the world’s sports activities have based mostly themselves on all through historical past.
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However, there’s nothing inside the realms of purpose that claims a non-physical recreation can’t be thought-about a sport, notably because it’s inconceivable to know exactly the place the road between bodily and non-physical should be drawn. If darts is not a sport, then why ought to golf be thought-about one? And if golf is not a sport then why ought to cricket be thought-about one? And so on and so forth.
In any case, 16-year-old darts prodigy Luke Littler was requested to settle the talk as soon as and for all following his World Darts Championship closing defeat to Luke Humphries, and gave a strikingly staunch reply. “It’s a sport,” he stated when prompted by reporter, and when requested why he replied: “It just is.”
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Despite the very fact 2024 is only a few days outdated, many are tipping Littler to win Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) when the award is handed out in 11 months’ time which, on the very least, suggests the British public are more than pleased to think about darts as a sport … even when they do not notably are inclined to heat to darts gamers themselves.
Despite the very fact the sport is dominated by British gamers, Phil Taylor is the one darts participant to have secured a podium end within the SPOTY award, having been voted runner-up in 2010 after profitable his thirteenth world title.
