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There is a big and growing youth scene in darts. Most of the top pros are pretty young now. That said the fact it generally takes place in pubs at grassroots level does skew things towards an older demographic

Originally Posted by Niamh.

My issue with it in sports in particular is women in sport are already fighting to be taken seriously in sport as it is so i think having women as decorations around the men in a sport makes it even harder for the female competitors to be taken seriously. I'm not going to stop watching the sports because of it (not talking specifically about Darts here as I rarely watch Darts but I suppose UFC/MMA ring girls comes to mind) but I don't love it.

That's a fair point but ironically - given it's being made out to be a bastion of sexism - darts is one of the only sports where women have broken into the men's game plus the women's game gets a lot of exposure and coverage in its own right