{"id":951,"date":"2007-01-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2007\/01\/02\/darts-a-sport"},"modified":"2007-01-02T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T10:00:00","slug":"darts-a-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2007\/01\/02\/darts-a-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Darts a sport?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See the discussion of what a sport is (and whether darts counts as one)at:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/r-p-e.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/defining-sport.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/r-p-e.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/defining-sport.html<\/a> as well &#8211; as that offers more detail than this short version&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theesource.com\/Images\/dartBoard.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"212\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theesource.com\/Images\/dartBoard.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> OK &#8211; guess what I got for Christmas&#8230; As hinted at by the image, you can correctly presume that Santa brought me a dartboard. One of the consequences of this is that my office wall is now peppered with small holes. Another is that it got me thinking about the labelling of darts as a &#8216;sport&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I took my thoughts to the internet &#8211; and discovered that the UK Darts groups (such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdodarts.com\/latestm.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Darts Organisation<\/a>) have fought a long campaign to have darts officially recognised as a sport&#8230; The case <strong>for <\/strong>seeing darts as a sport can be seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchaplin.com\/Darts_is_a_sport.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patrickchaplin.com\/Darts_is_a_sport.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This led me to thinking about what a sport <em>is<\/em>. I have asked a colleague with more expertise than myself in this area to put something together for the blog &#8211; but in the meantime, thought it was an interesting topic to get our minds moving with after xmas. Some things we recognise as sports &#8211; such as athletics. Some are games &#8211; monopoly, cluedo, etc. Some are sports and games &#8211; football.<\/p>\n<p>But what are the nature of the distinctions &#8211; and where does this leave darts?<\/p>\n<p>(It is worth noting the definitions of sport listed at <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=sport<\/a> it may help&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Comments welcome &#8211; Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the discussion of what a sport is (and whether darts counts as one)at:http:\/\/r-p-e.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/defining-sport.html as well &#8211; as that offers more detail than this short version&#8230; OK &#8211; guess what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,43,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darts","category-philosophy","category-sport"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}