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






Blatter quizzed in World Cup corruption probe

By Duncan Mackay

Sepp Blatter, seen here announcing that Russia had been chosen to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup, is among leading officials to have been quizzed over allegations of corruption ©Getty ImagesMarch 20 - Members of FIFA's ruling Executive Committee, including President Sepp Blatter, have been interviewed about the decision to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments to Russia and Qatar. 

Tokyo 2020 under fire for appointing "sexist" music producer

By Duncan Mackay

A petition called "No to Yasushi Akimoto" has been set-up to protest about the music producer's appointment to the Executive Board of Tokyo 2020 ©change.orgMarch 20 - A new row has erupted over the composition of the Executive Board overseeing Tokyo's preparations for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics with a petition having been set-up to protest against the inclusion of music producer Yasushi Akimoto, creator of the girl group AKB4.