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 to host first European Games in 2015

By Duncan Mackay at the CONI Headquaters in Rome 

EOC 41st General Assembly top tableDecember 8 - Baku was today chosen to host the inaugural European Games in 2015, the end of a long campaign to get the event added to the international calendar. 










Irish sailor let off with warning despite Olympic bet scandal

By Duncan Mackay at the Palace Hotel in Lausanne

Peter OLeary London 2012December 4 - Irish sailor Peter O'Leary has escaped being banned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) despite winning a four figure sum after betting on an opponent to win in the same event he was competing in at Beijing in 2008, it was announced here today.