Darts Association head Matthew Porter believes allegations that the show at the World Cup was partly staged are inappropriate.
“I don’t understand these accusations at all. This is ridiculous. It’s sport, they’re playing for half a million pounds. Millions of viewers are on the TV screens. It couldn’t be further from a scripted show,” said the managing director of the ” German Press Agency”.
Players like the Scot Peter Wright, who likes to come on stage with colorful hair and clothes, act more like fictional characters. At the last World Cup, Welshman Gerwyn Price suddenly put on huge hearing protection in the quarterfinals and continued playing with it. The images went around the sports world and graced daily newspapers and online portals. “Everyone has to make their own decisions. He wanted to wear it. He won’t wear it again because it didn’t go well for him,” Porter commented.
The leading official added that athletes in other sports had also made “extraordinary decisions”. “It has nothing to do with being scripted. It’s just what happens.” Price had clearly lost his game 1:5 against the German Gabriel Clemens.