OT The Darts

[ramAnag]

An interesting stat and perhaps indicative of a number of things:

1. Possible under representation of black-asian athletes at top level? Doubtful.

2. Minority athletes just not being good enough to win? Questionable.

3. Voter bias especially during the "free vote" years which are the majority of the 64 years? Probable

4. Over the 64 years spanned the black/asian population has risen from very few to maybe 13% now. So on average say 7%. Hence 6 in 64 (approx 10%) is over representative.

Incidentally I make it 9, "rounding up the halves", counting Hamilton twice:

Hamilton 2 Farah Whitbread Holmes Christie Lewis Raducanu Thompson. And that excludes the first Black winner in 1958. Nine is nearly 15%....

Lol...you’re not having Ian! You’re probably right...always been better at counting than me and I did forget Hamilton - mainly because I generally try to forget ‘motor sport’, but 15%, even if the numbers have recently and justifiably increased, speaks volumes.

Andy...you introduced this particular aspect to the thread. Bit harsh to now decree it unwanted.

[Andy_Faber]

Andy...you introduced this particular aspect to the thread. Bit harsh to now decree it unwanted.

No I didn’t, you’ve taken even the non party political aspect of the thread in a totally different direction to any point I was making

But by all means rattle on, my ‘not for this thread’ was purely regarding our hair-splitting sub-thread

[ramAnag]

No I didn’t, you’ve taken even the non party political aspect of the thread in a totally different direction to any point I was making

But by all means rattle on, my ‘not for this thread’ was purely regarding our hair-splitting sub-thread

Not worth ‘rattling’ on about. With all due respect you’re just wrong on this one. Your post 14 introduced a ‘different direction’ as anyone can see. You chose to raise the issue...GP and I just had a bit of typical north-south/red-blue good natured banter...nothing more.