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.
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
Team's strength is in numbers
Samantha Lane GreenEDGE's numerical strength likely to deliver titles to its own.
Cycling
GreenEDGE's all-for-one approach has title sewn up
Samantha Lane THE birth of Australia's trailblazing professional cycling team has made it infinitely more difficult - some say almost impossible - for non-members to become national road race champions.
Cycling
Newbie Elvin closes gap to be road champ
Samantha Lane On day 12 in her new job, Gracie Elvin becomes an Australian road-race champion.
Durbridge rides through the pain barrier for sweetest win
Samantha Lane LUKE DURBRIDGE might have felt he died a thousand deaths to land a historic double but twice in five days the most untapped talent in Australian cycling made winning look easy.
Cycling
Academy to help budding professionals
Samantha Lane Cycling Australia is creating a new academy to grooming budding road professionals.
WADA boss proposes all-sport doping amnesty
Samantha Lane Doping amnesty exclusively for cyclists would contravene the world drug code.
Culture of denial
Samantha Lane The first and biggest domino in cycling has fallen. Where and how will it all end?
Cycling
No denying it, cycling must face the music
Samantha Lane When Lance Armstrong won his record seventh Tour de France in 2005 he stood on the victory dais on Paris's Champs-Elysees and said: ''The people who don't believe in cycling, the cynics, the...
Cycling
'Boy band' hot for world champs
Samantha Lane World records are set to fall at the five-day track world championships, and the first should tumble tonight.
Cycling
Australians lose but spurred on for London
Samantha Lane Upset loss to Britain a 'kick in the guts' that will spur the Australians before Olympics.
Cycling
Title gives O'Shea Games boost
Samantha Lane Some Olympic pursuits take a lifetime of work and still never materialise. Glenn O'Shea presents a contrasting case.
Cycling
Finally, Meares gets that winning feeling
Samantha Lane From the moment the gun started the opening round of keirin qualifying, Anna Meares was back.
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
