Random Dart Stuff

[Greipel]

Hungarian Darts Super Final tomorrow for the national championship title. The first player will be Végső, I don't know who will be his opponent.

Will it be streamed?

[Jimmi]

Hungarian Darts Super Final tomorrow for the national championship title. The first player will be Végső, I don't know who will be his opponent.

Will it be streamed?

Can’t wait

[Greipel]

Hungarian Darts Super Final tomorrow for the national championship title. The first player will be Végső, I don't know who will be his opponent.

Will it be streamed?

Can’t wait

It's on now, there's the youtube link.

[The Thorn]

Cheers Greipel

I will take a look when the football has ended

[Ross, Bob]

Cheers Greipel

I will take a look when the football has ended

How about that look mate?

[The Thorn]

Cheers Greipel

I will take a look when the football has ended

How about that look mate?

I think this event is finished now sadly

[Greipel]

Kovács wins it, beating Takács in the final. The bronze goes to Vida and Kámán.

[Jimmi]

Nice

[The Thorn]

Kovács wins it, beating Takács in the final. The bronze goes to Vida and Kámán.

Good stuff mate. Nice preparation for Lakeside.

[oche balboa]

Nice one Grepiel

[The Thorn]

My Deutsch is a bit rusty but I have thoroughly enjoyed this

[oche balboa]

"Dutch darter Co Stompe, was this week suspended from competition for three months after cannabis was found in his system during a drug test by the Belgian Darts Authority. There is no such testing by UK darts authorities, so what implications does his sentence have for PDC and BDO players abroad and should they fall in line with their overseas counterparts ?
Drugs testing has long been a part of worldwide efforts to clean up sport. Every year countless sportsmen and women test positive for substances deemed to be illegal in the eyes of the law or that have been labelled as 'performance enhancing' by sports organisations.

The majority of sports governing bodies have stringent procedures for testing. International athletes are regularly subject to testing after races, as are footballers.

Dick Allix, the CEO of the PDC believes that the Corporation should certainly take the issue of testing seriously.

"We have discussed it in the past and are due to discuss in the near future, whether or not to introduce mandatory drugs testing.

"Darts needs to have a squeaky clean image, particularly because we are affiliated to the Sports Federation."

However,one point that immediately comes to the fore with regards to the Stompe case, is that, is it reasonable for a Dutch player to be banned for having traces of cannabis in his system, when the use of drug is acceptable in his own country ?

Logically it seems unfair, that while Stompe may freely use cannabis in his homeland, a week later when it is found a urine sample during competition in Belgium, he is subsequently banned. In addition the ban could cost him a place in this year's Embassy championships, due to the fact he'll miss out on the Finland and German Opens.

Stompe said in his defence that he didn't believe that the substance would have remained in his system a whole seven days after he had taken it.

His ban has been backed by the World Darts Federation, yet neither the PDC or the BDO test players for drugs.

The purpose of drugs testing of course is to prevent cheating. Drugs can affect or enhance an individual's performance, and give them an unfair advantage over opponents.

Cannabis is known to be a relaxant and could be beneficial to any darts player who suffers from nerves. Of course the same could be said of alcohol. Alcohol is classed as a drug, albeit a legal one, yet it is an intrinsic element of darts.

"How it would relate to alcohol is a different matter," says Allix. "Is it performance enhancing ? It is certainly helps people to relax.

"So are beta-blockers, which could feasibly be used by players to calm their nerves. We'd have to decide whether they would be regarded as illegal in darts, in the same way we would regard hard drugs such as cocaine or heroin as illegal."

Beta-blockers are considered by most sports governing bodies as illegal, with the International Olympic Committee listing it as a prohibited drug.

"In many ways alcohol and beta-blockers have the same effect. It is hard to be fair and reasonable when talking about alcohol, because drink is such a part of darts."

Because darts has struggled to be taken seriously as a sport by so many, it seems that the issue of drugs testing may have been overlooked. Surely if it is to receive equal respect as a performance sport, requiring the upmost skill and preparation, such testing should be mandatory.

In the meantime Mr Stompe can return to Holland and enjoy cannabis to his heart's delight for the next three months, so long as gives it up a week before returning to competition or taking any tests."

From April 2001

[oche balboa]

PDC HEADS TO THE LAKESIDE

https://web.archive.org/web/20070410125 ... 46,00.html

[Jimmi]

[Randall]

Little wonder the darts has been so shit

[TheMalteseDart]

Cullen can actually hold a tune

[Jimmi]

Cullen can actually hold a tune

Gurney can have lessons from him then.

[Randall]

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/darts ... s-28752756

[The Thorn]

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/darts ... s-28752756

This Daily Star muck seems alright

[Randall]

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