Samantha Lane

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

Matt White.

Samantha Lane Review of Australian Orica-GreenEDGE team recommends reinstating Matt White.

Cycling

White seeks redemption after six months in sin bin

FILE - OCTOBER 13: Former USPS cyclist and Lance Armstrong team mate, and now Director of Orica-GreenEDGE Cycling Team, Australian Matthew White has been named as part of the USADA inquiry into the actions of the USPS team last decade. White has been named in an affidavit by American Floyd Landis. BOULDER, CO - NOVEMBER 14:  (L-R) Matt White of Australia and Julian Dean of New Zealand mingle with the crowd as the Boulder Theater played host to the presentation of the 2008 Slipstream/Chipotle Professional Cycling Team on November 14, 2007 in Boulder, Colorado.  (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

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...

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Cycling

White keen for return

Matt White

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

Lance Armstrong has started to reveal the extent of his  cheating.

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

Armstrong body language 'unsettling' (Thumbnail)

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

Two dopes: Lance Armstrong and Tyler Hamilton in 2000.

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

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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...

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Brown denies dope claims

Thomas Dekker

Samantha Lane Fresh allegations of rife doping at professional team Rabobank have been denied.

Cycling

Brown denies claims Rabobank 'functioned around doping'

Graeme Brown

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'

Wiggins

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

Lance Armstrong Bradley 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

MALLORCA, SPAIN - JANUARY 24:  Tour de France and Olympic TT Champion Bradley Wiggins of Team SKY attends a Team Sky Media Day in Puerto de Alcudia on January 24, 2013 in Mallorca, Spain.  (Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)

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

Lance Armstrong.

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

doping

Samantha Lane Anti-Doping authority says it conducts fewer tests as screening is now more sophisticated.

Cycling

Insults unseat hope for truth inquiry

Pat McQuaid

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

Next in line: Leigh Howard, left, and Mark Cavendish, right, on Bradley Wiggins' wheel in the Tour of Britain.

Samantha Lane On the eve of the Bay Cycling Classic, Leigh Howard says it's all about intent.

Cycling

Sprinter Ewan impresses again

Caleb Ewan

Samantha Lane In the same place, at the same time, Caleb Ewan did precisely what he did 12 months ago.

Lance's Oprah moment

Lance Armstrong will appear on Oprah Winfrey's show.

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

Kimberley Wells

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

Cameron Meyer

Samantha Lane Cameron Meyer would return to the boards if his pet events returned to the Olympics.