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 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
Tour feels the heat
Samantha Lane Forecast for hot weather moves organisers to start a 108-strong peloton on a 148-kilometre journey two hours earlier than originally scheduled.
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.
Clock no match for cycling pair
Samantha Lane Shara Gillow and Luke Durbridge confirm themselves as leaders in time trials.
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
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
Rogers' move based on opportunity, says Sky boss
Samantha Lane Australian's departure from Sky has ''nothing whatsoever'' to do with doping.
Believe me, I’m clean: Gerrans
Samantha Lane These are questions Simon Gerrans' parents haven't asked him.
Olympians' full-blown pursuit of a winning edge
Samantha Lane FOUR track cyclists pedal at full speed into 65km/h winds. The day-long exercise is designed with a clear purpose: to help a team in green and gold snatch Olympic supremacy from Britain


























