ROVERETO, Italy (Reuters) - A woman carrying pole vaults in a purpose-built bag struggles to make her way through a crowd of screaming children at an athletics meeting in northern Italy.

Caster Semenya, the women's 800 meters world champion is alongside 2004 Olympic men's 100 gold medalist Justin Gatlin but the duo are not the recipients of the adulation.

Instead, Oscar Pistorius, who has never run in a world championship or an Olympics, is the one being mobbed by local youngsters even if some in the athletics fraternity had hoped the double amputee with prosthetic legs had gone away.

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