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

Date set for Pistorius murder trial

By Duncan Mackay

Oscar Pistorius returned to court today where he was formally charged with murder and told he will face trial next MarchAugust 19 - A date was today set for the trial of South Africa's six-time Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius for the premeditated murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at a hearing at Pretoria Magistrates' Court.

Bolt signs off with relay win to become World Championships' most successful athlete

By Mike Rowbottom at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow

Usain Bolt celebrates his third gold medal of the IAAF World Championships in Moscow after anchoring Jamaica to victory in the 4x100 metres relayAugust 18 - Fittingly, the athlete of the 14th International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships produced its final flourish as Usain Bolt became the event's most successful competitor in securing his third gold here by anchoring the Jamaican relay team to victory in a 4x100 metres relay which the United States needed to win to knock the hosts off the top of the final medals table.

Bolt retains world 200m title as Putin's call boosts Russian medal haul

By Mike Rowbottom at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow

Usain Bolt added the 200m title to the gold medal he had won in the 100m earlier in the World ChampionshipsAugust 17 - Usain Bolt retained his world 200 metres title as he pleased here on a night when victories from Svetlana Shkolina in the high jump and Russia's quartet in the women's 4x400m relay - both events the United States might have expected to win - put the home nation top of the medals table by virtue of an extra gold.

All hail to Farah, the conquering hero

By Mike Rowbottom at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow

Mo Farah celebrates completing the double of 5,000 and 10,000 metres at the World Championships in MoscowAugust 16 - On a night when the host drew level in the medals table with the United States in terms of golds – with victories in the women's hammer from Tatyana Lysenko and men's long jump by Aleksandr Menkov leaving them on five titles so far – Mo Farah soared even further away from his rivals in his two specialist events as he won the 5,000 metres to complete the double that so narrowly eluded him two years ago.