It probably couldn’t happen in the Olympics but with the home nations splitting into multiple parts for the Commonwealth Games, quirky things happen. One is the wonderful inspiring story of Steve Way, who represented England in the marathon yesterday.
We’ve been tracking the Twitter reactions to the Games since they started last week. We extracted the tweets relating to Steve from 8:30am yesterday morning to midnight last night.
The Graphs below show sentiment (top) and volume (below). The spike in volume reflects the conversation around the marathon, with the mini spikes reflecting Steve’s appearance with Gary Lineker in the evening. The sentiment graph reflects the overwelmingly positive reaction to Steve’s inspiring story.
We also extracted a wordle for the same period which encapsulates both Steve’s story and marathon performance.
