Darts news - Darts players Anderson and Harms level 'fart' accusations

Updated 17/11/2018 at 18:22 GMT

Darts players Gary Anderson and Wesley Harms have launched into an astonishing war of words over who dealt it, who smelt it.

Gary Anderson

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The two athletes claim the other player was responsibility for 'rotten egg smells' in what is fast becoming sport's most prominent guffgate.

Anderson faced Harms in the last 16 of the Grand Slam of Darts, and won the match itself 10-2.

But the sweet smell of victory was tarnished by the lingering scent of noxious gas.

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Harms was quick to blame his substandard performance on a "fragrant smell".

Speaking to Dutch TV station RTL7L, he said: "It'll take me two nights to lose this smell from my nose."

Anderson, ranked fourth in the world, dismissed the claim, and said that the sour odour was "from the table side".

"If the boy thinks I've farted he's 1010% wrong. I swear on my children's lives that it was not my fault," he said.

"I had a bad stomach once on stage before and admitted it. So I'm not going to lie about farting on stage.

Every time I walked past there was a waft of rotten eggs so that's why I was thinking it was him.

"It was bad. It was a stink, then he started to play better and I thought he must have needed to get some wind out.

"If somebody has done that they need to see a doctor. Seemingly he says it was me but I would admit it."

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