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...

Cycling

Industry left on tenterhooks as inquiry drags on

Waiting game: Klaus Mueller.

Samantha Lane Five months have elapsed since ASADA inquiry into cycling was announced.

Review slams 'toxic' culture in swimming

Magnussen

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

Barclay Nettlefold, president of Swimming Australia, speaks to the media on Tuesday.

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

THE ATHLETE'S VILLAGE -

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...

Cycling

Cycling's funding at risk, warns minister

GreenEdge.

Samantha Lane EXCLUSIVE Cycling Australia risks having its federal government funding cut if it fails to meet 17 recommendations of anti-doping review.

Gaudry in rhythm for uphill grind

Cycling Australia nominee for The Oceania Presidency of The UCI , Tracey Gaudry

Samantha Lane AN EXTRAORDINARY appointment arriving in the most extraordinary of times, Tracey Gaudry says she's a brave woman, and she'll need to be.

Samantha Lane

Cycling's new pacesetter

Tracey Gaudry

Samantha Lane An extraordinary appointment arriving in the most extraordinary of times, Tracey Gaudry says she's a brave woman and she'll need to be.

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.

Great deceit's unanswered questions

(FILES) June 8, 2003 file photo shows US cyclist Lance Armstrong speaking to the press in Villars-de-Lans, before the start of the first stage of the Criterium du Dauphine Libere cycling event.  Shamed cyclist Lance Armstrong, shorn of cycling's greatest prizes and expelled from sport, wants to compete again and doesn't believe he deserved the

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.

An opportunity to share the road if not the limelight

Podium pucker: Cadel Evans gets congratulations in Europe.

Samantha Lane Surely the elite riders should be racing in Adelaide rather than training in Canberra?

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

Oprah interviews Armstrong  (Thumbnail)

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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State, tour 'backed a loser'

Disgraced: Lance Armstrong made millions by racing in South Australia's Tour Down Under.

Samantha Lane Anti-doping expert says Tour Down Under "prostituted itself" by paying Lance Armstrong.

Cycling

Ashenden slams Tour for luring liar

Future of Cycling

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...

Could be a case of karma for tour

Basking in reflected glory but silent about the cost now: Mike Rann (right) with Lance Armstrong in 2009.

Samantha Lane We're still not getting a straight answer about how much South Australia paid Lance Armstrong.

Stonewall on Armstrong

Australian Anthony Giacoppo during the 135km first stage of Tour Down Under.

Samantha Lane Amount of Australian taxpayer money paid to Lance Armstrong may yet be disclosed.