Inside the Games

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Inside the Games (also known as insidethegames and insidethegames.biz) is an Olympic news website formerly edited by the British sports journalist Duncan Mackay. [1] As of 2023, it was sold to a company known as Vox Europe Investment Holding Ltd. [2] [3]

Mackay launched the site in 2005, originally as insidethegames.com, following the announcement that London has been chosen to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. The name of the site was changed to insidethegames.biz in 2009. [4]

Inside the Games was based in Bletchley, near Bletchley Park. [5]

Mackay was a winner of the 2009 Internet writer of the year award at the British Sports Journalism Awards by the Sports Journalists' Association for his work on insidethegames. [6] The insidethegames site was involved in a court litigation in 2010 with Zulu Creative, a web design company previously used by insidethegames. [7]

The site was published by Dunsar Media until 31 October 2023. In addition to the Olympics, the site covers Paralympics, Commonwealth Games, and a variety of other sporting events. Inside the Games formed official media partnerships with the organizers of some of the sporting events that it covers. [8] [9] [10]

After its takeover by Vox Europe Investment Holding Ltd, Spanish sports journalist David Rubio become Editor in Chief. [11] The new investors have been linked with Umar Kremlev and pro-Vladimir Putin sports officials in Russia in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, [12] something denied by the new owners. [13]

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