With Raymond van Barneveld, Vincent van der Voort, Dave Chisnall and ex-world champion Michael van Gerwen, four participants gave positive tests until yesterday. Especially the elimination of the latter hurts fans and competitors. “Now this tournament is worth less,” commented defending champion Gerwyn Price. “The tournament should be postponed.” It is time that he took himself to safety, said the Welshman. Van Gerwen, who has had no symptoms so far, tweeted that he was “disappointed, confused, angry with how my World Cup ended”.
Despite the rapidly expanding Omikron variant – London has declared a disaster – around 3,000 fans are allowed to celebrate in Alexandra Palace with 3G approval. At the latest with the first positive top stars, the World Cup should now have finally been overtaken by the Corona reality. The association PDC is likely to want to pull through the World Cup on the bend and break. It was time to “live with the virus”, 73-year-old PDC boss Barry Hearn tweeted in mid-December.
Source: Nachrichten
