Barry Hearn issues stern warning to overweight PDC darts players

Barry Hearn has issued a stark informing to overweight darts players, urging them to 'look aft themselves' and 'take responsibility' for their wellness portion they inactive can

Darts main Barry Hearn has delivered a blunt connection to players successful the PDC astir their fittingness levels.

The erstwhile chairman, who had a important two-decade tenure starring the organisation, challenged stars to instrumentality amended attraction of themselves, considering their lucrative positions wrong what helium has dubbed "the champion concern successful the world".

Speaking connected The Barry Hearn Show, the 76-year-old didn't mince his words, advising the athletes to workout "common sense", and "take responsibility" for their wellness to scope their afloat potential. "I spot a fewer darts players are a small spot overweight," helium said. "So I archer them: 'You're successful the champion concern successful the satellite astatine the moment. It's a licence to people money'.

"You tin alteration your life, your family's life, your children's life, their children's life. It's each down to you."

He added: "That's the work you instrumentality on. Are you up for it? If you are, look aft yourself a spot more. Go retired and person a locomotion each day. Watch what you're eating. Just communal sense.

"We've got a constricted magnitude of time, a constricted asset, which is our life. And each we got to bash is maximise the worth of our asset. Fit it each in. Go for golden each time of your life. Keep smiling. Upset everybody."

Unlike different sports, darts - which is traditionally a pub crippled and synonymous with intoxicant - doesn't necessitate precocious mobility oregon stamina, astatine slightest not superficially. Instead, players request intelligence fortitude, method skill, and top-tier hand-eye coordination to excel.

However, galore sports that prioritise intelligence and method sharpness implicit carnal fittingness - similar snooker, bowling, and golf - don't spot the aforesaid prevalence of overweight players arsenic darts. That said, attitudes towards nutrition and fare person been shifting recently, and determination are present respective teetotal players connected the PDC Tour who enactment an accrued accent connected their lifestyle.

Hearn took implicit arsenic president of the PDC successful 2001 aft buying a bulk involvement successful the company, which had divided from the BDO successful 1992 and go the starring organising assemblage successful darts. He helped catapult darts to the forefront of British and European sport, overseeing a monolithic fiscal surge successful the game.

In 2021, helium passed the baton to his son, Eddie Hearn. Now, Hearn Sr serves arsenic president of the company, offering strategical guidance and enactment to the board, portion Eddie takes attraction of the regular absorption and decision-making.

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