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 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...
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...
ASC shows displeasure by cuts to athletics, swimming
Samantha Lane No longer merely on notice for governance failings and mediocre performances, Swimming Australia and Athletics Australia have had their federal government funding slashed.
Olympics
High-profile sports pay for mediocrity
Samantha Lane Swimming Australia and Athletics Australia have had their federal government funding slashed.
Cycling
Industry left on tenterhooks as inquiry drags on
Samantha Lane Five months have elapsed since ASADA inquiry into cycling was announced.
Swimmers could lose Olympic prizemoney
Samantha Lane THE Australian Olympic Committee will investigate, and is prepared to financially sanction, the swimmers accused of breaching the team agreement in London.
Review slams 'toxic' culture in swimming
Samantha Lane and Scott Spits A report reviewing the leadership in Australia's swimming team has slammed a "toxic" culture which saw swimmers abuse prescription drugs, alcohol and curfews during last year's London Olympics.
Swimming
Hefty fines await offending swimmers
Samantha Lane Athletes found guilty of abusing prescription drugs and bullying will face significant fines.
'Culturally toxic': swimmers hit with claims of drugs and bullying
Samantha Lane TWO disturbing reports into a dysfunctional Olympic swimming team devoid of leadership in London last year will see athletes found guilty of abusing prescription drugs and bullying exposed and hit...
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.
Great deceit's unanswered questions
Samantha Lane One of the greatest ironies about Lance Armstrong's talk-fest is that it has morphed into a discussion about what he did not say.
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.
Samantha Lane
Australian cycling waits on further drugs fall-out
Samantha Lane Twenty-eight Australian cyclists are working their way through the Tour Down Under this week.
Call to clear bike 'suspects'
Samantha Lane Cycling Australia boss Klaus Mueller says reputations are being unfairly damaged.
Cycling
Cycling world in a spin over drug amnesty proposal
Samantha Lane Australian anti-doping expert Mike Ashenden is sceptical of the UCI under Pat McQuaid.
