World darts championships 2017

World champion Scotty Waites has come from 2-0 down to draw level at 2-2 with Mark “Geezer” McGeeney.

Geezer had a couple of darts to make it 3-1 in the deciding leg of set 4 but missed.

Like with Paul Hogan last night, will that come back to haunt the Stockport man?

Fake news!

The kids play on the pdc-like “Youth” boards with bigger trebles and doubles.

Many sports have adopted a policy of making youth sport less competitive and pressurised, ie. in association football kids play small sided games on smaller pitches - an approach pioneered by the Dutch. This leads to greater enjoyment, better skills development and lower dropout rates when kids reach the key years of 17-18 and is part of an overall holistic approach to youth sport development. The “youth” board concept in BDO darts is consistent with this, and all credit to the guardians of our game for their forward-thinking approach in this regard.

Scotty too hotty for Geezer as he wins 4-2.

FAO of @Piles_Hussain:

Our girl Aileen de Graaf has started very impressively against the great Trina Gulliver and has taken the first set 3-1.

Anyone else watching this match :laughing:

Gulliver on 59 and hits D19 with her first dart :laughing:

Gulliver left on 5 and hits 18 with her first dart :laughing:

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The pressure of the Lakeside stage there as Trina finally hits double 2 on her 19th double attempt in this leg!

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Unsurprisingly Gulliver loses in straight sets.

That match will be on Gold in a couple of years

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Aileen so close to a Ted Hankey-esque 170 outshot to win the match!

But she nails double 18 on her next visit!

The FOTF has beaten the reigning champion and is through to play Lisa Ashton in the semi-finals!

Fucks sake

Typically forthright words from Trina in her post-match interview, calling her performance “absolutely shocking”.

That kind of frank and brutal honesty with herself is why she’s such a winner and a 10 times world champion.

This is her (our) year :clap:

Darius Labanauskas has beaten Krzysztof Ratajski 4-3.

Gutted for @balbec, but Krzysztof has done Polish darts proud this week - let’s hope the sleeping giant that is Polish darts is about to awaken for real.

But the dream goes on for Lithuanian darts as Darius advances to meet Duzza.

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Great to see Dean Winstanley back at the Lakeside for his wife Lorraine’s quarter-final against Anastasia Dobromyslova.

Ana’s husband Tony Martin was having the bantz with Dean there in their interview with Seema Jasmal.

Two great darting couples.

What a shirt Dean was wearing. Reminds me of the kind of thing myself and Nelson Mandela used to wear.

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Lorraine decked out in a Galway jersey here.

The other one is like the warder off of Prisoner Cell Block H.

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Did you share it with Nelson?

Yes. We couriered it back and forth between us at the end of each month. While I thought about taking sole possession of it after his death, I decided to donate it to the Robben Island Museum, where warder Anastasia Dobromyslova looks after it.

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