Adelaide, SA

Stawell Gift winner Olufemi Komolafe stripped of title after positive ADHD drug test

7NEWS Digital Staff

30 Sept 2026 20:38 AEST Summary

From the report

A drug scandal has affected the Stawell Gift, with this year’s winner stripped of his title after testing positive to an ADHD medication.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

7NEWS Stawell Gift winner Olufemi Komolafe stripped of title after positive ADHD drug test plain
Brisbane Times ‘I want to apologise for all this’: Stawell Gift winner apologises after losing title over drug test plain
ABC News (Sport) Stawell Gift winner suspended for 12 months after positive drug test plain
The West Australian Stawell Gift winner Olufemi Komolafe stripped of prize after positive drug test plain

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All three things this headline claims are in the report.

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How it is written

Niral Score 17.2 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, sourcing and 1 more and 5 at zero

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winner4medication3positive3won3drug2running2stripped2taking2test2title2

Sentiment -0.5 hostilefavourable Sourcing 9 unattributednamed sources Mood 73.5 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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Measured on 7NEWS’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by Brisbane Times, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, WAtoday, The West Australian. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
7NEWSas they published this story	17.2	5	9	-0.5	73.5
ABC News (Sport)	7.3	3	70	0.0	55.1

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The same event elsewhere

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Brisbane Times ‘I want to apologise for all this’: Stawell Gift winner apologises after losing title over drug test Niral 7 · calm political 0 The Age ‘I want to apologise for all this’: Stawell Gift winner apologises after losing title over drug test Niral 7 · calm political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald ‘I want to apologise for all this’: Stawell Gift winner apologises after losing title over drug test Niral 7 · calm political 0 WAtoday ‘I want to apologise for all this’: Stawell Gift winner apologises after losing title over drug test Niral 7 · calm political 0 ABC News (Sport) Stawell Gift winner suspended for 12 months after positive drug test Niral 7.3 · calm political 0 The West Australian Stawell Gift winner Olufemi Komolafe stripped of prize after positive drug test Niral 4.2 · calm political 0