Mampara of the Week: Tubby Reddy

Reddy, steady, stop right there

IT's bad enough that a portly man named Tubby Reddy is in charge of SA Olympic sports. But it stretches the bounds of credulity when Tubby and his pals jet off en masse to Innsbruck, Austria, where South Africa fielded just one athlete at the Winter Youth Olympics, alpine skier Sive Speelman.

While the most important people - the athlete and his coach - flew cattle class, the bigwigs at the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee fly only business class, as allowed in their "policies and procedures". How many administrators? Five! Tubby the CEO, a Sascoc deputy president, a chef de mission, a project manager and IOC committee member Sam Ramsamy. You want to ask: what were they thinking? And you would be presumptuous. Had they been thinking, they would not have done it. Hogarth has some advice for our man Reddy. Next time, watch it on telly, Tubby. A mampara of Olympic proportions.

- Timeslive