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LUKE THE NUKE!

AS FAR as sport goes, it doesn’t usually dominate world headlines or draw millions of eyeballs on TV. Watching guys squeezed into tight tops throwing a pointy thing at a board – let’s face it, darts just isn’t sexy.

But it’s taken a 16-year-old with a scraggly beard, a dad bod and a brain wired like a computer to propel it into the stratosphere.

Luke “The Nuke” Littler is the latest prodigy in world sport and quite possibly the most exciting thing ever to happen to the game of darts.

This kid, with his penchant for kebabs and Xbox, arrived at the PDC World Darts Championship in London ranked 164th in the world and made it all

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