- Coverage
- 34 outlets in 27 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 34 outlets, 6 state-owned, 2 public-service, 26 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
- Countries by region
- Africa 2: Nigeria, Uganda. Americas 3: Brazil, Chile, Guatemala. Asia-Pacific 11: Afghanistan, Australia, India, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 8: Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Hungary, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 3: Qatar, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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
- German, English, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Nepali, Dutch, Portuguese, Thai, Vietnamese.
- Timeline
- Earliest article The Japan Times, 20 Sept 2026, 03:14 UTC. First seen 20 Sept 2026, 03:30 UTC. Last seen 21 Sept 2026, 18:56 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 Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). 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
- 25.09, at the end of the last day measured. 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.
- Chain
- Continued by 13-year-old Chinese swimmer sets Asian record in 200m medley. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
- 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.