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up The voltage. The Upsets. The Atmosphere . In this stage, You could even have the lack of flat beer and overpriced food.

Although it is feel more could, it's only been just over a month, as part of an effort to slow down in order to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

But what if some magical corner of the sporting universe, everything was quiet, almost as Normal - and not a single one of the social distancing as a rule been broken?

Well , we are here to tell You that this sport exists.

And his name is Dart.

"Everyone wants to Play , to Play '

Dart' Secret Weapon is now to compete against someone, You don't need to be in the same room as You .

And that meant that pretty much since the lockdown started, the players have still been able to face off against each other - and power is the whole thing, for fans.

"Everyone wants to Play more Darts . I definitely do, because everyone is to be noted, Darts at The Moment , so You just want to keep it going," Fallon Sherrock says Radio 1 news beat.

The 25-year-old to beat by The First woman, is A Man at the PDC World Championship.

After their historic victory in December, Fallon called for female players are more chances

Fallon has signed up to an online tournament MODE called Icons of Darts , which for the past Two Weeks and is Streaming live for nine hours A Day .

she makes her debut in the next week - and says that it is only technical difficulties, which mean, she's taken this long to get started.

"I was rushing to my internet sorted In Time ," she laughs.

"I've asked top players to Play online against You , people like it, The World 's Number Three Gerwyn Price , but I just sort my internet out so I can Play . "

This kind of Atmosphere is not too difficult to recreate, alone in your Living Room , right?

But what started with smaller tournaments was started and now Darts " main Board of Directors has announced that the largest players in The World compete in what is known as the PDC-Home-Tour.

And the whole thing is free to view online.

"It beats watching The News , and all the terrible things that are told all over The World - so we are a bit of fun with Darts ," the current PDC World Champion Peter 'Snakebite' Wright news beat.

On the stage in front of thousands of fans of the 50-year-old a massive character: he has a multi-colored Mohawk, he's dancing around to Pitbull and he is not afraid to a lot.

Peter Wright won his first world title in January

for his online-debut, he'll give away is that his wife had "something planned" for his hair but, like Fallon, Peter seems to be the most nervous in front of the technology.

"I'm not really electronics-so it's all a bit strange for me. Entertain You is only The Second Time I have Skype.

"But we take it seriously. Hopefully such people will not be there, the observed, Darts , before You will enjoy it and maybe get a Board and start playing. "

to watch So, with almost as many hours online Darts in the offer, as the hours of The Day are, You 'd be forgiven if You 're wondering who's actually going.

A big factor in pulling in the audience, to a fan of Ricardo Maraia, You are, as they reproduce the famous Dart-like Atmosphere .

Darts fan, Riccardo (l), in better times, enjoy call the Darts In Person

"The walk-ons, the" One-hundred-and-eighty-and the " OHS " and "AHS" when someone finds it, You doubled, You will not have that in these tournaments, unless someone's partner is very unsupportive in the background," he laughs.

"But we all need our sports fix now and Darts is really in a unique and privileged location. "

And even if Ricardo thinks that the lack of an Atmosphere could mean a big disadvantage, he, actually, there might be some positive aspects.

"It is often said in Darts , that many players better in practice, so we could see an equally high, if not better, standard of Darts , the tournaments at this.

"You could players who freeze on the Big Stage , a little more comfortable in your own four walls and to Knock Out some Well -known players. "

PDC-Home-Tour-matches can be observed for free on the PDC website.

Live-MODE from League of Darts games are also observed and can be found on the MODE website.

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Source of news: bbc.com