Olympic titan Pat Hickey undressed by farce

The charges he faces are notoriously difficult to prove and it may well be the arrests, the leaked footage and police press conference were all for the benefit of the police being seen to be doing something, writes Paul Rouse.

The megalomania of elite sports administrators is almost cartoonish and is fuelled by an acute sense of entitlement.

At the very highest level, their power transcends political boundaries. Indeed, they are usually courted by statesmen and politicians who wish to bask in the reflected glory of mass-appeal sporting events.