Oscar joins long list of famous felons
Image: Alon Skuy
Sport has produced more male felons than female.
Whether murder, adultery, match-fixing or tax evasion, the crimes have mostly been the preserve of males.
From cricket captain Hansie Cronje's involvement with Indian bookies and the philandering Tiger Woods's voracious appetite for women to Lance Armstrong's steroid indulgence, Oscar Pistorius and OJ Simpson's killings of their lovers, Lionel Messi's tax case and Mike Tyson's spousal abuse, the industry has been sullied by people whose on-field fame made them believe they were above the law.
Pistorius's defence team was rightly denied its pleas for leniency, restoring faith in a judiciary that has treated famous people in the same way as ordinary mortals, albeit less severely in the cases of Pistorius and Simpson.