Samantha Lane
Samantha Lane is a sports writer with The Age's sports section. She joined The Sunday Age's sports team in 2005, where she specialised in the coverage of Australian Rules football, before joining the daily Age in 2007. She has a wealth of multi-media broadcasting experience since starting her journalism career in 2002 at www.afl.com.au. She is also a panellist on Network Ten's Before the Game. Samantha covered the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, the 2008 Beijing Olympics and will be reporting extensively on the 2012 London Olympics.
Cycling body to act on drugs review
Samantha Lane Cycling Australia will establish an ethics and integrity panel and insist that top cyclists, coaches and administrators sign declarations as a condition of carrying out national duties, after a...
Cycling
Swear you are drug free or on your bike
Samantha Lane CYCLING AUSTRALIA will establish an ethics and integrity panel and insist that top cyclists, coaches and administrators sign declarations as a condition of carrying out national duties after a...
Cycling
Gerrans to lead team
Samantha Lane Orica-GreenEDGE apparently less concerned about winning Tour Down Under this year.
Cycling
Cycling body to act on drugs review
Samantha Lane The federal government-ordered investigation into Cycling Australia's anti-doping policies has made 16 recommendations to the organisation hit hard by the sport's latest drugs crisis.
Cycling
Review gives officials confidence
Samantha Lane Australian cycling bosses privately relieved over findings of federal government review.
Durbridge rides through the pain barrier for sweetest win
Samantha Lane LUKE DURBRIDGE might have felt he died a thousand deaths to land a historic double but twice in five days the most untapped talent in Australian cycling made winning look easy.
Cycling
Newbie Elvin closes gap to be road champ
Samantha Lane On day 12 in her new job, Gracie Elvin becomes an Australian road-race champion.
Cycling
The urge to pedal for a little metal
Samantha Lane Rachel Neylan has ridden through the mill in her ongoing desire for cycling success.
Cycling
Track could lure Meyer
Samantha Lane Cameron Meyer would return to the boards if his pet events returned to the Olympics.
Cycling
Meyer warms up for main event with bewildering victory
Samantha Lane CAMERON MEYER'S honour roll is as long as it is varied, but he never expected to add national criterium champion to it, even when he was in the midst of staging the feat.
Cycling
Stretch of the legs, and a win
Samantha Lane Cameron Meyer woke at 4am in Perth to travel to Ballarat for a street circuit race that night.
Cycling
Win has Wells on track
Samantha Lane Doctor Kimberley Wells can now add national champion cyclist to her curriculum vitae.
Lance's Oprah moment
Samantha Lane Once-was-hero to submit himself to a long-form public inquisition by famous talkshow host.
Clock no match for cycling pair
Samantha Lane Shara Gillow and Luke Durbridge confirm themselves as leaders in time trials.
Cycling
Team's strength is in numbers
Samantha Lane GreenEDGE's numerical strength likely to deliver titles to its own.
Cycling
GreenEDGE's all-for-one approach has title sewn up
Samantha Lane THE birth of Australia's trailblazing professional cycling team has made it infinitely more difficult - some say almost impossible - for non-members to become national road race champions.
Cycling
Anger fuels Watson's unheralded charge
Samantha Lane Calvin Watson shows his stuff after being told he wasn't good enough for national under-23 road squad.
Davison stages surprise
Samantha Lane Three-time junior world track champion chuffed that almost four hours of repeated attacking rewarded.
Push to beat extreme heat leads to late call on early start
Samantha Lane IN TIMES gone by, elite road cyclists used cabbage leaves to cool themselves when racing in extreme heat.
Cycling
GreenEDGE in collusion row
Samantha Lane Allegation of collusion dampens an otherwise successful finale to the Bay Cycling Classic for the women's Orica-GreenEDGE team.

























