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

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Former top banker tipped for leading role with Tokyo 2020

By Duncan Mackay

Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan Toshiro Muto is reportedly lined up to the secretary general of Tokyo 2020 ©Bloomberg/Getty ImagesJanuary 23 - The team that will oversee preparations for Tokyo 2020 will be officially unveiled tomorrow with the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan Toshiro Muto expected to be appointed secretary general to work under ex-Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori.


Tokyo Governor candidates lay out plans for 2020 Olympics

By Duncan Mackay

Former Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa claims he wants to use Tokyo 2020 to "build a new Japan" ©AFP/Getty ImagesJanuary 23 - Former Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, a critic of Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, has promised that he will use the Games to "create a new Japan" if his campaign to become the city's new Governor is successful.