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.

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Rio 2016 must "not be scared" by success of London 2012

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

Sebastian Coe receives baton from Carlos Nuzman Rio de Janeiro November 17 2012November 18 - Rio 2016 were today urged not to be "scared" by the success of London 2012 and to organise the Olympics and Paralympics in their own style as the official debriefing of this year's Games officially begun here today.