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Chest puffed, eyes wide and fixed on their target, Gerwyn Price steps up to the oche at the start of a new leg in the final of the Grand Slam of Darts.
His first dart pings the red treble-20 bed. His second dart nestles in alongside it. Without
BREAKING stride Price throws his third and final dart: another treble-20. As the crowd in Wolverhampton rise to their feet, Price pumps his fist for the camera as referee George Noble fills his lungs and belts out the signature call: “ONE HUNDRED AND EIIIIIIIIIIGHTY!”