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Who is the Daily Mail referring to?It was frightening stuff. [X]'s record here is incredible...few British sportsmen have such a record of consistency on a global stage
Yes, obviously Phil 'The Power' Taylor, the world's best darts player, and probably the greatest ever, after winning his 13th darts world championship.
Darts is now of course Officially a sport, which strikes me as a jolly good thing. I was also supportive of the Olympic bid, though clearly Andy Fordham did it no favours by being too unfit to finish his world championship showdown with Taylor.
It was surely a mistake though to try for Beijing in 2008. Far more sensible would be to introduce darts at our own games in 2012. Indeed the main theatres of darts dreams are easily within 40 mins of the Olympic Village, or whatever the IOC's stipulation is. Do we dare dream of an east London Olympics started off by Phil Taylor firing a burning dart to ignite the Olympic flame?
posted by Matthew @ 1/03/2006 08:36:00 PM
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