Craig Reedie becomes Tweddie in Blair autobiography

PLENTY will have rushed out to buy Tony Blair's book - or snagged an advance copy - and flicked straight to the index to see if, and how many, mentions they got.

SAY MY NAME: Great Britain's most influential IOC member, Sir Craig Reedie, becomes Craig Tweddie - not a relation to Cheryl - in Tony Blair's much-discussed autobiography (Reuters)

Blair's devotes several pages of his autobiography, The Journey, to the London 2012 Olympic bid in a chapter called Triumph and Tragedy, which also deals with the aftermath of the July 7th bombings that followed just one day after the host city election in Singapore.

As a prominent part of the bid team, the then chairman of the British Olympic Association, and a member of the International Olympic Committee, Craig Reedie surely deserved a nod of recognition?

However, what's worse? Not getting the mention or having your name spelled wrong by the former prime minister?

"Craig Tweedie from the IOC was an adept and skilful committee politician," writes Blair, on page 546.

Journalists are on thin ground when it comes to spelling - Euan Burton can easily become Barton while the best bollocking I ever received was for accidentally missing out the second i in Patrick Vieira's surname.

But I expected better from Mr Blair and his legion of highly-paid editors from Random House.

And so should Sir Craig.

---

MORE BLOGS BY SPORTSBEAT'S JAMES TONEY

Swimmer Rice loses her car after tweet too far

Sad inalienable truth of Indian sports doping

Deadlines were made to be broken for Delhi 2010 organisers

BBC hoping for comedy gold in Olympic organisers satire

---