Oscar Pistorius. Who he?

[max_tranmere]

Lots of inevitable coverage between now and June about his private life, and lots of pap shots of him at his new place of residence, in the garden, and so on. Lots to keep all the people, who had little interest in him before, amused throughout the next few months. If he was banged up there would be less coverage of him. Come June (I think it's 4th June) it all explodes onto the media all over again!

[andy at handiwork]

What a strange place Max World is.

[max_tranmere]

I expect we'll see less coverage of all this now he is on bail. The media seem now to be obsessed with Osborne and the economy.

[andy at handiwork]

So totally contradicting your last post where you said that now he's on bail there'll be lots of opportunities for pics of him in his garden amongst other places. Do make your mind up.

[max_tranmere]

Less coverage now bail has been granted, compared to the mega coverage there has been for the last week. It's not got much coverage today, and it will remain at a lower level than the saturation coverage of the last week, now that there is nothing to report of any Court proceedings. It will explode again in June. As far as the late-Feb to late-May coverage of this man, now that he's out, it will be slightly greater (pap shots in the papers etc) than would have happened had he been behind a 40 foot wall in prison.

[andy at handiwork]

Will you be keeping a chart on your bedroom wall of the exposure he gets around the world between now and june, so that come the trial you will be able to say 'Just as I predicted'.

[Don Roobles]

slow horrible death...i think he passed away ages ago

[max_tranmere]

No, I don't have very much interest. I've spent the last week or so curious however as to why so many other people do when he was not at the forefront of their minds previously.

This from Wikipedia:

STARTS

2012 Summer Paralympics

In the 200 metres competition Pistorius established a new world record of 21.30 seconds in his heat on 1 September, but he was defeated in the final the next day by Alan Oliveira of Brazil. Pistorius took silver.

ENDS

Oh yes, of course, Alan Oliveira. The super famous Alan Oliveira. I've got a picture of him on my bedroom wall. As he beat Pistorious in the 200 metre final and set a new world record, we are all bound to have heard of Alan Oliveira aren't we? I have to say though that, ahem, I haven't.

[Sam Slater]

Medal record:

Alan Oliveira

Silver - Beijing 2008
Gold - London 2012

Oscar Pistorias

Bronze - Athens 2004
Gold - Athens 2004
Gold - Beijing 2008
Gold - Beijing 2008
Gold - Beijing 2008
Silver - London 2012
Gold - London 2012

1st - Italy 2011 *
16th - London 2012*
Silver - Benin -2012*
Silver - South Africa 2007*
Silver - South Korea 2011*
Silver - Benin 2012*

* able-bodied events.

Maybe a clue as to why more people know about Pistorias than Oliveira?

More shit in defence of previous shit.

[andy at handiwork]

...and then two come along. Seems his brother is up in front of the beak as well.