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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Canoe-slalom fears being pushed to the Rio 2016 margins

By David Owen at The Hilton in Buenos Aires

Plans by Rio 2016 to move the canoe slalom from the Deodoro zone to a location 700 miles away have angered the International Canoe FederationSeptember 6 - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes' Commission is expected to head to Brazil next week to discuss the Rio 2016 canoe slalom venue, in the wake of the disclosure that consideration is being given to moving the competition to a course 700 miles away.