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.
State, tour 'backed a loser'
Samantha Lane Anti-doping expert says Tour Down Under "prostituted itself" by paying Lance Armstrong.
Cycling
Ashenden slams Tour for luring liar
Samantha Lane MICHAEL ASHENDEN, an anti-doping expert and former employee of cycling's world governing body, says the Tour Down Under "prostituted itself" by paying Lance Armstrong millions of dollars to race in...
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.
Cycling
Rogers abandons Wiggins for Contador
Samantha Lane AUSTRALIAN champion Michael Rogers has abandoned the world’s best road cycling team.
Cycling
Rogers' move based on opportunity, says Sky boss
Samantha Lane Australian's departure from Sky has ''nothing whatsoever'' to do with doping.
Cycling
GreenEDGE baffled by anti-doping story
Samantha Lane GreenEDGE’s commitment to a tougher anti-doping code than the World Anti-Doping Agency’s is not a fait accompli, with the Australian team bewildered by international reports it suspects have come...
