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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Cities bidding for 2020 preparing to hand in Candidature files

By Duncan Mackay in Lausanne

IOC headquartersJanuary 6 - Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo are all due to hand in their Candidature files to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) here tomorrow for their bids for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, marking the next phase of a campaign which will culminate in a host city being chosen in September.




Austrian and German lift Queensland Open titles

By Duncan Mackay

Martin Legner in actionJanuary 5 - Austria's Martin Legner and Germany's Sabine Ellerbrock lifted the first titles of the 2013 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour when they won the men's and women's singles titles at the Queensland Open in Brisbane.