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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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.

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.

Brown denies dope claims

Thomas Dekker

Samantha Lane Fresh allegations of rife doping at professional team Rabobank have been denied.

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Australian cycling waits on further drugs fall-out

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Samantha Lane Twenty-eight Australian cyclists are working their way through the Tour Down Under this week.

Call to clear bike 'suspects'

Klaus Mueller

Samantha Lane Cycling Australia boss Klaus Mueller says reputations are being unfairly damaged.

Durbridge rides through the pain barrier for sweetest win

NATIONAL ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP - MEN'S ROAD RACE
Winner Luke Durbridge *** Local Caption *** Winner Luke Durbridge Luke Durbridge crosses the finish line in the Australian Championship Road race.
Lachlan Bence
The Ballarat Courier
13th january 2013.

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

Review gives officials confidence

Cycling Australia president Klaus Mueller.

Samantha Lane Australian cycling bosses privately relieved over findings of federal government review.

Cycling

Cycling body to act on drugs review

Matt White races for US Postal in 2003.

Samantha Lane The federal government-ordered investigation into Cycling Australia's anti-doping policies has made 16 recommendations to the organisation hit hard by the sport's latest drugs crisis.

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Swear you are drug free or on your bike

Lance Armstrong

Samantha Lane CYCLING AUSTRALIA will establish an ethics and integrity panel and insist that top cyclists, coaches and administrators sign declarations as a condition of carrying out national duties after a...

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Cycling

Gerrans to lead team

Simon Gerrans.

Samantha Lane Orica-GreenEDGE apparently less concerned about winning Tour Down Under this year.

Cycling body to act on drugs review

Matt White races for US Postal in 2003.

Samantha Lane Cycling Australia will establish an ethics and integrity panel and insist that top cyclists, coaches and administrators sign declarations as a condition of carrying out national duties, after a...

Bid for overhaul at top of cycling

Members of the Change Cycling Now group will be addressed by the US Anti-Doping Agency boss.

Samantha Lane Change Cycling Now will be addressed by US Anti-Doping Agency boss behind the downfall of Lance Armstrong.

Cycling

Vinnicombe claim probe

Martin Vinnicombe

Samantha Lane Official who allegedly helped Martin Vinnicombe self-inject fresh target of Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.

Believe me, I’m clean: Gerrans

Cleanskin: Simon Gerrans says he has been clean through his whole riding career.

Samantha Lane These are questions Simon Gerrans' parents haven't asked him.

Cycling

Team's drug audit holds no fears for riders

Standing tall: Cyclists Simon Clarke, Matt Goss, Rachel Neylan and Amanda Spratt on Wednesday.

Samantha Lane GreenEDGE's Matt Goss and Simon Clarke declare themselves clean.

Cycling

Review begins journey back to redemption

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Samantha Lane Australians' loss of faith in cycling can be restored by government-led review.

Cycling

The doping wheels are turning, says Mueller

Drug-tainted: Matt White in better days.

Samantha Lane Cycling Australia's president says doping being tackled with ''vigour that few other sports can match''.