Sport
Tearful Smith switches allegiance to the Netherlands
Live
- Newsrooms
- 5
- Last 3 hours
- 3 reports
- Momentum
- Surging
1 in the 3 before
Rising
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Against the past week
More newsrooms than 85% of the past week’s 3580 stories, and number 54 of 1056 in Sport.Why it’s moving
- Crossed overThe right picked it up 14 hr after the left. 2 left and 1 right newsrooms on it now.
1South Africa's most decorated Olympian Tatjana Smith was in tears as she announced that she has switched her international allegiance to the Netherlands.
In BBC Sport’s words.2
The story so far
5 newsroomsRising- Reports
- 7
- Newsrooms and sources
- 5
- Last 3 hours
- 3
Rising: more reports in the last three hours than the three before (3 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).
First with it: Yahoo Sports, 1 hr 2 min before anyone else.
Reported by 5 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
- 5
- Over
- 14.7 hr
- To three newsrooms
The Independent
Al Jazeera
CNA
New York Post
Yahoo Sports
Yahoo Sports
The Independent
CNA
Al Jazeera
BBC Sport
New York Post