24-year-old marathoner dies after collapsing during race

🗞️ Story file #1304

24-year-old marathoner dies after collapsing during race

Nov 3, 11 AM ET to Nov 5, 7 AM ET

17outlets carried it
🫏9 · 2 · 6🐘left · center · right
1.8 dayson the front pages
16front pages at once, at its peak
2 minof TV captions
10people retold it online
2 of 2parts of a saga

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👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Nov 3, 11 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Independent
Nov 4, 4 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Nov 4, 5 AM ETretold online by 10 people
Nov 4, 9 AM ETpeak: on 16 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 3, 11 AM to Nov 5, 7 AM ET (peak 16), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

“determined”1
“so competitive”1
“always on the go”1
“perfect health”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (3 wordings): “What to know about rhabdomyolysis after death of 24-year-old NYC Marathon runner” → “24-year-old dies after running in NYC Marathon”
NBC News (2 wordings): “Father shares final texts from 24-year-old runner who collapsed during NYC marathon” → “What is rhabdo? Rare muscle condition linked to marathon runner’s death”
New York Post (5 wordings): “NYC Marathon runner in ‘perfect health’ dies after collapsing two miles from finish line” → “Rachel Apa, 24, died hours after falling at Mile 24 of the race in Central Park, succumbing to the rare muscular condition rhabdomyolysis.”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “24-year-old woman dies after collapsing in final stages of New York City Marathon” → “24-year-old woman dies after collapsing in final stages of race”
The Independent (2 wordings): “24-year-old dies after collapsing during her first New York City Marathon” → “Rhabdo is linked to NYC marathoner’s death. What is the condition and how worried should you be?”
The Sun (2 wordings): “MARATHON TRAGEDY Marathon runner, 24, collapses and dies just 2 MILES from finish line” → “LAST WORDS Haunting final text from runner, 24, moments before she died 2 miles from finish A SPECTATOR ran over to help the runner after she collapsed during the race.”

📰 Every outlet's headline 17left to right by AllSides rating