Samantha Lane on Lance Armstrong - Sport

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

Samantha Lane Review of Australian Orica-GreenEDGE team recommends reinstating Matt White.

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White seeks redemption after six months in sin bin

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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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

Industry left on tenterhooks as inquiry drags on

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

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Cycling's funding at risk, warns minister

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

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.

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Cycling's new pacesetter

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

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

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

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.

Cycling

Ex-teammate says cover-up denial a lie

Samantha Lane Tyler Hamilton says Lance Armstrong is still lying about testing positive at a race in 2001.

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Armstrong still lying, says former teammate

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'

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

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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...

Could be a case of karma for tour

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

Stonewall on Armstrong

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

SA may come clean on Lance cash

Samantha Lane, Adelaide The amount of Australian taxpayer money paid to Lance Armstrong may yet be disclosed by a South Australian government under renewed pressure to declare how it lured the now-disgraced cyclist to Tour...