Why is darts not an olympic sport

While darts may not take much vigor, many consider it a sport. There have been great efforts by various official dart organisations to get darts into the Olympics, and the Olympic Committee have said it may become incorporated in the games. Around 17 million people around the world play squash, but in the last official bid to enter squash into the Olympics, it was rejected in favour of wrestling. A new bid is expected for the games. Read more about: Sport How well do you really know the Olympic Games?

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Call me meshuga, crazy, whacky, or British. For them, the two have conflicting images and the mainstream exposure that it would bring to darts could have its downsides as well as positives, with darts and its culture micro-analysed by the mainstream media in a whole new light. The campaign to put darts in the Olympics has found backers in the world of the sport, however.

Former England rugby coach Sir Clive Woodward made the case very eloquently in the Daily Mail, stating: "Darts is a sport of and for the people and that is what the modern-day Olympics is striving very hard to reflect. Woodward makes an excellent point and there is no doubt that darts' addition to the Olympic Games would have a huge impact and would expose the game to people who may not have come into contact with it before.

However, although the WDF have expressed an interest in bidding to feature in the Games over the years, the PDC is yet to throw itself behind a bid and many in the game rightly have their concerns that it would not be quite right.

Despite this, as the game continues to get bigger, the calls for darts to be added to the Summer Olympics are unlikely to decrease. Perhaps in years to come we will be celebrating our sport's Gold, Silver and Bronze medallists as well as its World Champions. Sign Up Now.