Duncan Mackay Editor

Duncan Mackay is the founding editor of insidethegames.biz, the world’s leading and most influential independent Olympic news website. He was voted the British Sports Writer of the Year in 2004, British News Story of the Year in 2004 and British Sports Internet Reporter of the Year in 2009. Mackay is one of Britain's best-connected journalists and during the 16 years he worked at The Guardian and The Observer he regularly broke several major exclusive stories. He was also the only newspaper journalist in Britain to correctly predict that London would win its bid for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Duncan Mackay

Recent articles by Duncan

New research shows how high London 2012 has set bar for Rio 2016

By Duncan Mackay at the Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de Janeiro

London 2012 Paralympic logo behind wheelchairNovember 21 - The scale of the task facing Rio 2016 in four years time will become apparent here this week when the debrief into the London 2012 Paralympics takes place with the publication of new research which will demonstrate how high Britain has set the bar.





Ankara lab set to have WADA accreditation restored

By Duncan Mackay

Anti Doping control kitNovember 20 - Ankara's drug testing laboratory is set to have its accreditation reinstated by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) after it had it suspended last year because of a false positive involving American basketball star Diana Taurasi.