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
White recommended to return as team boss
Samantha Lane Review of Australian Orica-GreenEDGE team recommends reinstating Matt White.
Cycling
White seeks redemption after six months in sin bin
Samantha Lane After telling authorities everything he knows about doping, and serving a backdated six-month ban for his sins, cyclist Matt White hopes to be reinstated as a director of Australia's professional...
Cycling
White keen for return
Samantha Lane After telling authorities everything he knows about doping, and serving a backdated six-month ban for his sins, former cyclist Matt White hopes to be re-installed as a director of Australia's...
A perfect story but it wasn't true
Samantha Lane It took one minute and 45 seconds for Lance Armstrong to renounce lies he maintained for decades.
Armstrong tell-all light on details
Samantha Lane The self-confessed liar, bully and narcissist accepted he should be punished for doping throughout his seven Tour de France victories, but not as harshly as he has been.
Cycling
Ex-teammate says cover-up denial a lie
Samantha Lane Tyler Hamilton says Lance Armstrong is still lying about testing positive at a race in 2001.
Cycling
Armstrong still lying, says former teammate
Samantha Lane TYLER HAMILTON, the retired cyclist who exposed Lance Armstrong as a doper in 2011, says his former teammate is still lying about testing positive at a race in 2001 and claims the Union Cycliste...
Brown denies dope claims
Samantha Lane Fresh allegations of rife doping at professional team Rabobank have been denied.
Cycling
Brown denies claims Rabobank 'functioned around doping'
Samantha Lane FRESH allegations of rife doping at professional team Rabobank have been denied by Australia's dual Olympic champion, Graeme Brown, who is entering his eighth season with the rebadged outfit.
Cycling
Wiggins calls Armstrong a 'lying bastard'
Samantha Lane British cycling champion Bradley Wiggins does not believe Lance Armstrong rode clean in the 2009 Tour de France – a counter claim to the American’s insistence he never doped after 2005.
Cycling
Lance is a 'lying bastard': Wiggins
Samantha Lane Bradley Wiggins does not believe Lance Armstrong rode clean in the 2009 Tour de France.
Cycling
Armstrong lied about making clean return, says Wiggins
Samantha Lane BRITISH champion Bradley Wiggins does not believe Lance Armstrong rode clean in the 2009 Tour de France - despite the American's insistence he did not dope after 2005.
Anti-doping boss claims Armstrong still lying
Samantha Lane Lance Armstrong has until February 6 to do something he has always resisted - co-operate fully with the US Anti-Doping Agency - and is being lured by the promise his lifetime ban from sport will be...
Cycling
ASADA defends fewer drug tests
Samantha Lane Anti-Doping authority says it conducts fewer tests as screening is now more sophisticated.
Cycling
Insults unseat hope for truth inquiry
Samantha Lane AN EXCHANGE of insults has deepened the rift between cycling's world governing body and the World Anti-Doping Authority, plunging a crisis-hit sport into a deeper hole.
Cycling
Howard revving up inner mongrel
Samantha Lane On the eve of the Bay Cycling Classic, Leigh Howard says it's all about intent.
Cycling
Sprinter Ewan impresses again
Samantha Lane In the same place, at the same time, Caleb Ewan did precisely what he did 12 months ago.
Lance's Oprah moment
Samantha Lane Once-was-hero to submit himself to a long-form public inquisition by famous talkshow host.
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
Track could lure Meyer
Samantha Lane Cameron Meyer would return to the boards if his pet events returned to the Olympics.
























