The theme music for the hilarious BBC TV spoof series on London's run-in to the Olympics, Twenty-Twelve is "There may be trouble ahead." No doubt Lord Coe, who had a cameo role in an early episode, is having a wry smile about that.

It was all going so smoothly, a veritable cake-walk in the Olympic Park for organisers LOCOG, with the IOC heartily back-slapping Coe and co and declaring that London's preparations were the best-ever.

Then along came little Lord Moynihan to make waves – not quite a tsunami but big enough to cause serious concerns about potential storm damage.

As it happens the embarrassing cash spat between two Tory peers and fellow Olympic medallists may now be sorted around the table rather that a Swiss court – though I still wouldn't bet on it.

Somewhat inevitably, as the count-down clock ticks away, the Coe-Moynihan feud has now been followed by more controversies which suggest that while 2012's wheels may not be coming off, the gloves most certainly are.

This week two more Olympians have been in maelstrom-making mode.

First Dave Bedford, the one-time wild child of the track who for almost two decades has brilliantly orchestrated the London Marathon, revealed that he had walked out of his role helping plan the Olympic event, saying he could no longer work with the organisers.

A case of "Bootsie" putting the boot in.

When I lunched with 61-year-old Bedford recently he seemed more irritated than angry, clearly believing he should have had more support from the top.

"I am disappointed because I feel Seb could have done something about it and didn't," he told me.

Of course, dear old Dave has always been a bit of a maverick but apart from the late Chris Brasher no-one has known more about how to stage a great marathon.

His expertise is an undoubted loss, however lightly Coe may care to dismiss it.

Then along comes Tessa Sanderson to hurl her javelin deep into Olympic heartland in Newham, saying the local Council, by whom she had been employed to successfully run their sports academy, "haven't got it right " about Olympic legacy.

Tessa, who resigned from the Olympic Legacy Company board after she was barred from voting on the stadium's future, fears athletics will be squeezed out eventually despite the track-keeping pledge made by football tenants West Ham.

She also has other issues with the way things are going on the road to 2012, a road paved with potential gold medals all round but now some treacherous pot-holes too.

However for me, the most critical dispute over the Games concerns the pernicious punch-up between the ABA of England and international governing body AIBA, who chose this week to reveal that Team GB's head boxing coach Rob McCracken will be barred from the Games unless he relinquishes his role as a professional trainer with world super-middleweight champion Carl Froch.

Along with a selected fistful of scribes, including insidethegames Tom Degun, first to break the story, I was invited to a rather pleasant dinner with Dr Ching-kuo Wu, the English-educated Taiwanese billionaire boss of AIBA during the SportAccord convention in London.

The object of the exercise, we were told, was to publicise final stages of the current World Series of Boxing (WSB), a global international inter-city team competition run by AIBA under revolutionary new rules.

But it was news of another AIBA rule which had us spluttering over our roast lamb and two veg Dr Wu, prompted by his chief executive Ho Kim, of Korea, casually dropped a bombshell by revealing he had just written to Keith Walters, chair of the ABA of England, informing him that McCracken was no longer licensed to work as a coach in AIBA-run tournaments, including the Olympics and world amateur championships because of his association with pro fighters, mainly Froch.

They cited a "long-standing rule" which barred pro-linked coaches from working the corner, or even attending AIBA events – though curiously an AIBA spokesman later back-tracked, admitting that the regulation was only ratified last month.

Don't you think something smells a bit iffy here?

By strange coincidence the ABAE is currently under suspension by AIBA following the foolhardy attempt by former chief executive Paul King to topple the mighty Dr Wu, who is also an influential IOC member, from his presidential perch.

There is little doubt that Dr Wu remains extremely peeved by what he seems to perceive as King's impudence, and is none too pleased either that the ABAE declined to take up a London franchise with his new baby, the WSB.

We were told at the time that this was not seen as an economically viable proposition, though some boxers were disappointed because of the opportunity to earn substantial prize money.

Now here's the real irony in all this. AIBA have virtually professionalised 'amateur' boxing (the label is the only one remaining in the Olympics) in the WSB tournaments by removing headguards and vests, with bouts of five rounds (seven in the finals), and employing the pro-style 10 points per round scoring system. And participants get paid handsomely, in some cases trousering as much as they might as in the pro game, while retaining their Olympic eligibility.

They are professionals in all but name.

Yet AIBA want to ban coaches like McCracken who have links with the professional sport.

The words double and standards spring to mind.

The British Olympic Association are unhappy, and now seeking clarification from AIBA about the sudden inclusion of a regulation which, as they point out, could have serious repercussions on the medal prospects of those GB male and female boxers who have been nurtured by McCracken and whose recent performances have been outstanding.

The BOA want to know why this rule is being applied and hopefully chair Colin Moynihan (pictured) will take a breather from his bout with Seb Coe to investigate.

He should have some sympathy as he did a bit of the old one-two himself - he was a boxing Blue at Oxford and was once suspended himself, by the ABA as it happens, for sparring with professionals.

Funders UK Sport are also entitled to enquire just what is going on, having invested substantially into achieving success for British boxers in 2012.

Dr Wu's revelation seems a cunningly aimed body blow. But is it below the belt?

It might appear to some that King falling on his sword has not been sufficient to appease him.

But I fear the ABAE are on the ropes, with the likelihood of McCracken missing both the World Championships and start of the Olympic qualifiers later this year as he is tied to a commitment with Froch in the Super Six series in June.

Also, unless the rule is rescinded or an exception made (unlikely) he would need to give six months notice of his ending ties with the pros to work at the Olympics. It's a mess.

So can the new man in the ABAE ring sort it?

Taking on the wily Dr Wu and his formidable Korean henchman, the Oddjob of the fight game, will be an interesting task for freshly-appointed chief executive Mark Abberley, apparently experienced in sports management with a leisure group but with no know-how of the intensely political in-fighting of amateur boxing.

But as least his background as chairman of the Archery Great Britain Performance Group should prepare him for the slings and arrows of the sport's outrageous fortune.

With all that is happening at the moment his will be some baptism. We wish him luck.

He's going to need it.

Seconds out!

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 Olympics, 10 Commonwealth Games, several football World Cups and world title fights from Atlanta to Zaire.