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Discovery UK Add Live Free-To-Air Lakeside Coverage On Quest

Quest joins Eurosport and discovery+ to deliver live free-to-air coverage to UK viewers The World Darts Federation (WDF) welcomes the return of televised darts to the Lakeside Country Club, with Discovery screening comprehensive live coverage across its multi-platform network. Viewers can access the coverage across multiple territories via Eurosport and discovery+*, with UK fans now also able to enjoy live free-to-air action via channel Quest. All afternoon sessions plus all competition finals will be broadcast live, available to view across Freeview (Channel 12), Freesat (Channel 167), Sky (Channel 144) and Virgin TV (Channel 169). Coverage gets underway on Saturday 2nd April and concludes on Sunday 10th April.
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TOTO Dutch Open Darts in June will continue

Good news for the TOTO Dutch Open Darts 2022 and other major events. The government has decided to further scale down the corona measures. This means that the so-called 1G policy will disappear, so that testing no longer needs to be done at events with more than 500 participants.
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Lakeside WDF World Championships - Fallon Sherrock

Fallon Sherrock has withdrawn from the Lakeside WDF World Championships in April. Priscilla Steenbergen from the Netherlands now comes into the 24-woman field as the highest ranked WDF player at the end of 2021 not already qualified.
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Lakeside WDF World Championships - Revised line up confirmed

Following the IOC’s recommendation that no Russian players are permitted to participate in WDF events, four competitors have been withdrawn from the 2022 World Championships field and replaced by Fallon Sherrock, Jo Clements, John Scott and Landon Gardiner.
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The 2022 WDF season so far: January and February review

The opening two months of the 2022 WDF season may have looked a little different than originally planned after the postponement of the World Championships but there were still seven senior events played across four nations and several of this year’s Lakeside qualifiers got important, morale-boosting title wins under their belts. Andrew Sinclair recaps the action.
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Russian Invasion of Ukraine

The world is horrified by what Russia has done, aided and abetted by Belarus. World leaders sought to avoid this invasion through diplomatic means but to no avail given Russia’s unswerving intention to invade Ukraine. The unprecedented sanctions that are being imposed on Russia and Belarus by countries, and industries all over the world appear to be the only peaceful way to disrupt and disable Russia’s current intentions and restore peace.
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