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"2026 Commonwealth Games

Published: 20 May 2025
England Darts along with Scotland both agreed to assist Wales in making investigations on our behalf to attempt to include darts as a sport in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games to be held in Glasgow.
Discussions have been taking place for the last 12 months to see if we could host this prestigious event.
We are in the process of contacting all the commonwealth countries with an offer of participating in the event, which will be held in Cardiff.
We are hoping that this initiative as a demonstration sport within the Commonwealth games will prove the catalyst for full inclusion into the main games in future years.
This is the same process which has been used in Olympics to assess the viability both financial and levels of participation.
This is a unique opportunity for furthering our sport of darts, and England are 100% behind this initiative, the start of which for England will come at the England Trials at Selsey on Friday 6th June at Selsey during the England Open. The trial is open to everyone and can be entered online viawww.englanddarts.co.uk"

"Haven't seen Michael turn up for a while now": Michael van Gerwen's 'race is run' at the top according to Colin Lloyd

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Excellent news

Some decent progress. None of the darts journalists have picked this up.

Darts News could do with a dedicated Estonia section IMO.

Potter's Lake wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 8:32 am Darts News could do with a dedicated Estonia section IMO.

+ lots

Darts events over the weekend - On Dartconnect

EEA Open 2025 - Scotland

Martin Muirison 3-0 Marc Henderson with a 90.18 average (https://tv.dartconnect.com/event/mt_xlq58bdl_6/matches)

Romania Nationals - Bacau Cup

Laszlo Kadar 6-2 Daniel Racoveanu (https://tv.dartconnect.com/event/romnat ... bc/matches)

Iceland Grand Prix 2025

Arngrimur Anton Olafsson 4-0 Pétur Rúðrik Guðmundsson (Sets) (https://tv.dartconnect.com/event/idagrandprix25_

WMJDA Q-School 2025 - Week 01 - West Midlands Junior Darts Academy

https://tv.dartconnect.com/event/wmjdaq ... 01/matches

Tom Griffiths 3-1 Keaton Podmore

SDC Tour 2025 - Event 09

Stefan Bellmont 7 (82.44)
Carsten Hoffmann 5 (85.59)

https://tv.dartconnect.com/event/sdctour25e09/matches


Hungarian Darts Super League 2025 - Finals

Gyorgy Jehirszki 6 (86.82)
Gergely Lakatos 2 (77.52)

https://tv.dartconnect.com/event/hungar ... ls/matches

Darts Point Bulls League 2025 - Finals (Croatia)

https://tv.dartconnect.com/event/dpbulls25finals

Benjamin Pratnemer 8 (75.06)
Mitja Habjan 5 (72.76)

Spindle City Open 2025 - USA

https://tv.dartconnect.com/event/spindlecity25/matches

Fred Krueger 4 (75.53)
Joe Ricard 3 (71.71)

Freddy Krueger

tungsten tossers wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 9:45 am Freddy Krueger

in Spindle City. Amazing.

Tom Sykes is going for darts full time from the 1st June.

A bold move for a player without a tour card but it shows where the game is right now that he feels he’s able to do that

TheMalteseDart wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 12:39 pm Tom Sykes is going for darts full time from the 1st June.

A bold move for a player without a tour card but it shows where the game is right now that he feels he’s able to do that

Land of milk and honey

Just don't upset the Bs

TheMalteseDart wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 12:39 pm Tom Sykes is going for darts full time from the 1st June.

A bold move for a player without a tour card but it shows where the game is right now that he feels he’s able to do that

It's an interesting move. But Neil Duff has done it for 3 years

oche balboa wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 12:43 pm

TheMalteseDart wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 12:39 pm Tom Sykes is going for darts full time from the 1st June.

A bold move for a player without a tour card but it shows where the game is right now that he feels he’s able to do that

It's an interesting move. But Neil Duff has done it for 3 years

He can probably live off sponsorship alone being a world champion

TheMalteseDart wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 12:39 pm Tom Sykes is going for darts full time from the 1st June.

A bold move for a player without a tour card but it shows where the game is right now that he feels he’s able to do that

Do you think he’ll start entering some of the WDF England events this year?

The England Open doesn’t clash with a PDC event for example

oche balboa wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 12:43 pm

TheMalteseDart wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 12:39 pm Tom Sykes is going for darts full time from the 1st June.

A bold move for a player without a tour card but it shows where the game is right now that he feels he’s able to do that

It's an interesting move. But Neil Duff has done it for 3 years

It’s easy for him when Modus kiss his bum hole so he gets invites to events 95 times a year