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Asian Games conclude with records and controversies

Rank
Running
38h
Updated
9h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
8
Regions
3
Countries
7
Languages
2

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INTLAl-Monitor International · English 4 Oct, 06:30 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

Read it also in 中文 (1) · +0 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 40 hours.

2 4 6 8
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Al-Monitor, 4 Oct, 06:30 UTC.
  2. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Malay Mail.
  3. Second country: South Korea, with Yonhap.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 4 Oct, 10:29 UTC.
  5. Now: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

41 of 41 hours

Earlier Later

The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

75%13%12%

  • Asia-Pacific 6 outlets · 5 countries · 75%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • International 1 outlet · 12%

First movers

  1. INTLAl-Monitor 4 Oct, 06:30 UTC
  2. Malay Mail +2h 6m
  3. Yonhap +3h 59m
  4. Tuoi Tre News +4h 9m
  5. The Manila Times +9h 39m

Latest arrivals

  1. France 24 5 Oct, 13:01 UTC
  2. China News Service 5 Oct, 08:51 UTC
  3. The Korea Herald 5 Oct, 00:27 UTC
  4. The Manila Times 4 Oct, 16:09 UTC
  5. Tuoi Tre News 4 Oct, 10:39 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 7 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 3 state-owned, 1 public-service, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 5: China, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Vietnam. Europe 1: France. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article Al-Monitor, 4 Oct 2026, 06:30 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 08:40 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 13:01 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Asia-Pacific, Japan. Topic Sport. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.41, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
4 Oct 2026 150 3.81 5 5 5 5 4.1

This record as JSON, CC BY 4.0.

How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 4 Oct, 08:40 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 13:01 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 6 outlets

  • China News Service China 5 Oct, 08:51 UTC
    追光|亚运会“上新”,中国队表现如何
  • The Korea Herald South Korea 5 Oct, 00:27 UTC
    Asian Games close after fortnight of turmoil and teenage triumph
  • The Manila Times Philippines 4 Oct, 16:09 UTC
    Asian Games ends after records, mix-ups
  • Tuoi Tre News Vietnam 4 Oct, 10:39 UTC
    Asian Games close after fortnight of turmoil and teenage triumph
  • Yonhap South Korea 4 Oct, 10:29 UTC
    (Asiad) 20th Asian Games draw to conclusion with celebration of athletic feats
  • Malay Mail Malaysia 4 Oct, 08:36 UTC
    Records and rancour: Asian Games close amid flag gaffe, mismanagement claims and standout feats

Europe 1 outlet

  • France 24 France 5 Oct, 13:01 UTC
    Japan bids farewell to Asian Games after fortnight of turmoil and records

International 1 outlet

  • INTLAl-Monitor International 4 Oct, 06:30 UTC
    Asian Games close in Japan after records, rancour and rain
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