South Africans divided over Olympic swimmer’s switch to Netherlands
- Newsrooms
- 6
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Steady
1 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 7 newsrooms by 9:40am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 91% of the past week’s 3760 stories, and number 28 of 1079 in Sport.Tatjana Smith, South Africa's most decorated Olympian, switches allegiance to the Netherlands.
Al Jazeera didn’t include a summary, so this is BBC Sport’s, from its report on the same story.2
The story so far
6 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 9
- Newsrooms and sources
- 6
- Last 3 hours
- 1
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (1 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).
First with it: Yahoo Sports, 1 hr 2 min before anyone else.
Reported by 6 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: Yahoo Sports, BBC Sport (all BBC).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 6
- Over
- 16.8 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 1.1 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 5:08am AEDT | Yahoo Sports | 1 |
| 6:10am AEDT | The Independent | 2 |
| 6:13am AEDT | CNA | 3 |
| 4:52pm AEDT | Al Jazeera | 4 |
| 7:52pm AEDT | New York Post | 5 |
| 9:58pm AEDT | Africanews | 6 |



