Not that either organisation is rudderless, as both have been asked to hang on until later this month, though it seems curious that no formal announcement has been made about who will take their places.

Interviews were held for both posts over a fortnight ago and the popular supposition is that Baroness Sue's fellow peer Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson would be installed at UK Sport with Nick Bitel, chief executive of the London Marathon, taking over at Sport England, on whose board he already sits.

But no one has heard anything from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), whose Secretary of State, Maria Miller, has to rubber stamp the appointments.

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson seems the most logical choice to replace Baroness Sue Campbell

Why the delay? Again, no one seems to know, though the hint is that it may have something to do with parliament being in recess. DCMS told insidethegamesthat an announcement will be made "in due course" but declined to confirm whether any decisions have been made.

However, I understand that the recommendations made by the interviewing panels are still being reviewed by ministers and mandarins and that we may hear something by the end of next week. Might there still be an unexpected twist in this tale?

Yet Baroness Tanni, whose application was endorsed by Lord Coe, and Bitel, one of Britain's top sports lawyers, seem the most logical choices.

Perhaps Tanni's problem is that she may feel better suited to the Sport England chair, because of her empathy with sport's grass roots.

"I'm not sure if it's going to go in my favour or against me that I couldn't decide which box to tick," she said before making her application.

Sports politics are as much Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson's bag as was winning gold medals

Personally, I thought that because of her persona, sporting stature and political nous, the UK Sport role was a no-brainer.

Such is the Paralympian's pedigree they should have snatched her hands off. Hopefully they still will.

Like Baroness Sue, she sits as a left-leaning crossbencher in the House of Lords, where she has made a significant impact speaking on sport and social issues.

Those who saw her on TV last week arguing so cogently on welfare reforms could not fail to be impressed by her grasp of politics (in which she has a degree).

Similarly, sports politics are as much her bag as was winning gold medals as Britain's pioneer wheelchair wizard and elevating the profile of Paralympic sport to a level where 2012 was such a welcoming stage.

Picking up the UK Sport baton from her fellow peers would be the perfect handover, for there are good reasons why both are on the list of Britain's 100 most powerful and influential women, compiled by BBC's Woman's Hour.

But what of SuCa herself?

Baroness Sue Campbell still has the energy and combative instincts of the netball and hockey player she once was

Surely, the doyenne of administrators still has a meaningful part to play in the future of British sport?

Her spell in charge of UK Sport ends just short of decade. In that time she has presided over an organisation that has overseen an investment of £347 million $528/€409 million) in Britain's sporting elite, culminating in the memorable successes of 2012.

I have not always agreed with her on sporting issues particularly UK Sport's invidious "no-compromise" attitude over funding only those who may be medal prospects.

But I have immense admiration for her sporting ideology, as well as her determination to promote women's sport and rectify what she terms the "physical illiteracy" of so many of Britain's school kids.

Along the way many feathers have been ruffled, egos pricked and battles fought over budgets, usually successfully.

Hers has been a lifetime spent combining sport and education. A former PE teacher and sports science lecturer, she was the chief executive of the National Coaching Foundation for a decade and then the chief executive of the Youth Sport Trust, which she still chairs.

At 64, she still has the energy and combative instincts of the netball and hockey player she once was.

So it will not surprise me if Baroness Sue's experience and expertise was to be harnessed by new British Olympic Association (BOA) chair Seb Coe, who is much more of a fan of sport's Iron Lady than was his predecessor Lord Colin Moynihan.

Lord Colin Moynihan alleged that Baroness Sue Campbell plotted to block his appointment as BOA chair

Their differences were acute, notably over the expensively-hired Sir Clive Woodward BOA director of performance; a function Baroness Sue considered an irritating duplication of that of her own much-admired former henchman Peter Keen at UK Sport.

Lord Colin had also alleged that Baroness Sue plotted to block his appointment as BOA chair – something she has always vigorously denied.

Happily, the relationship between the nation's two major multisports governing bodies nowadays are considerably more harmonious.

Indeed, so much so that last month members of the BOA's management team "sat in" in a UK Sport board meeting and subsequently Baroness Sue was invited by Coe for a reciprocal visit to a corresponding BOA session.

Later this month Coe will announce the BOA's strategic plan for Rio.

Might that embrace some input from the redoubtable Baroness?

An intriguing question – rather like the one of over whom she might be keeping the seat warm for at London's Russell Square.

Surely, it must be TGT – who, like her, is a talent far too good to be wasted on real politics!

Alan Hubbard is an award-winning sports columnist for The Independent on Sunday, and a former sports editor of The Observer. He has covered a total of 16 Summer and Winter Games, 10 Commonwealth Games, several football World Cups and world title fights from Atlanta to Zaire.