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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Big Beasts unleashed on the road to Buenos Aires

By David Owen at Beaulieu Lausanne

Richard Carrion Lausanne July 4 2013July 4 - After the amuse-bouche of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic vote, the Big Beasts vying for the most powerful post in world sport were today unleashed, going head-to-head in successive 15-minute speeches in an effort to persuade their International Olympic Committee (IOC) colleagues that theirs were the right feet to step into Jacques Rogge's Presidential shoes.