He smoked while throwing, and could even do it from the bar: this darts talent preceded Dancing Dimi and The Hurricane (Waregem)

Wesley Marreel is proud of what his father Luc achieved in darts in the eighties. — © Joerie Dewagenaere

Gullegem/Beveren-Leie

A week without Belgian darts on television seems to have become a rarity. Thanks to Dancing Dimi or Kim ‘The Hurricane’ Huybrechts. But the Flemish TV pioneer was Luc ‘Lucky Luke’ Marreel from Gullegem in West Flanders. In the early 1980s he bird pecked on the BBC.

Joerie Dewagenaere

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