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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Children to be allowed to attend first European Games for free

By Duncan Mackay at the Fairmont Hotel in Baku

The medals for the first-ever European Games in Baku were unveiled today ©Baku 2015Children will allowed admission for this year's inaugural European Games for free as officials unveiled a cut-price ticketing strategy designed to ensure full stadia, launching it to coincide with 100 days until the start of the event on June 12.