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

Baku 2015 facilities for European Games praised by Hickey

By Duncan Mackay at the Fairmont Flame Towers Hotel in Baku

European Olympic Committee President Patrick Hickey, pictured here with Azerbaijan's First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva, has praised the quality of the facilities being built for Baku 2015October 28 - Baku has been praised for the progress it has made in preparing for the inaugural European Games here in 2015 with Patrick Hickey, President of the European Olympic Committees (EOC), predicting that some of the facilities will be superior to Rio 2016.

IOC "absolutely reassured" over Fukushima, claims Takeda

By Duncan Mackay

Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda claims the IOC have no concerns over the situation at FukushimaOctober 28 - There are no fears at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that Tokyo 2020 will be affected by the continued radioactive water leaks at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, it has been claimed by Tsunekazu Takeda, President of the Japanese Olympic Committee.