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





Armstrong settles another multi-million dollar lawsuit

By Duncan Mackay

Lance Armstrong has settled another multi-million dollar lawsuit without having to give sworn testimony @Getty ImagesNovember 21 - Lance Armstrong has reached a settlement with an insurance company who were seeking to recoup more than $3 million (£2 million/€2.5 million) in bonuses paid to the disgraced American cyclist for his wins in the Tour de France between 1999 and 2001, part of a sequence of seven consecutive victories.


Exclusive: England reveal Team Leaders for Glasgow 2014

By Duncan Mackay

Alexei Evangulov, who has played a leading role in the career of Tom Daley, will be England's Team Leader for diving at Glasgow 2014 @Getty ImagesNovember 20 - Peter Stanley, the man behind the incredible success of triple jumper Jonathan Edwards, and Alexei Evangulov, one of the world's best-known diving coaches, are among the 18 Team Leaders appointed by Commonwealth Games England (CGE) for Glasgow 2014, insidethegames can reveal.


Pearson hoping to take on Fraser-Pryce at Glasgow 2014

By Duncan Mackay

Sally Pearson celebrates winning the Commonwealth Games gold medal in the 100 metres hurdles at Delhi 2010 @Getty ImagesNovember 19 - Australia's Sally Pearson is planning to compete in the 100 metres at next year's Commonwealth Games in what could be a potential showdown against Jamaica's double Olympic champion over the distance, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. 


Fox aims broadside at world canoe governing body

By David Owen

Australian Jessica Fox has hit out at the ICF not adding more women's events until Tokyo 2020 at the earliest @AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 18 - The International Canoe Federation (ICF) has come under fire from one of the sport's highest-profile athletes for stating publicly that the proposed inclusion of women's C1 canoe slalom in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics would "certainly please" her.