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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.

The Australian Olympic Swimming Team pose during the official 2012 Australian Olympic Games Swimming Team Team Announcement at the South Australian Aquatic & Leisure Centre in Adelaide.

'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...

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.

UCI 'willing to mislead' on drugs

Samantha Lane PROOF has emerged that cycling's world governing body deliberately reduced drug testing in 2010 due to budget constraints - a claim the International Cycling Union has previously been at pains to...

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.

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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

Ryan bags footy codes over drugs

Samantha Lane Owner of Australia's Orica-GreenEDGE team says the sport does more than most to eradicate doping.

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.

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Swimming

Hefty fines await offending swimmers

Samantha Lane Athletes found guilty of abusing prescription drugs and bullying will face significant fines.

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.

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.