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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.

Unexpected: Luke Durbridge celebrates the win.

Cycling

Durbridge gets home

Samantha Lane Men's Orica-GreenEDGE team records its first Bay Cycling Classic stage victory.

Cycling

Teen ace takes patient path

Samantha Lane Teenage sprint sensation Caleb Ewan becomes the youngest winner of the Bay Cycling Classic, but the aspiring professional is content to sit out this year's Tour Down Under provided he is considered...

Davison stages surprise

Samantha Lane Three-time junior world track champion chuffed that almost four hours of repeated attacking rewarded.

Cycling

Anger fuels Watson's unheralded charge

Samantha Lane Calvin Watson shows his stuff after being told he wasn't good enough for national under-23 road squad.

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.

Cycling

Gerrans to lead team

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

Cycling

'Paranoia' to keep riders out of tour

Samantha Lane Australian professional cyclists disadvantaged in January national road titles.

Cycling

World body should ban drug cheats for life, says Gerrans

Samantha Lane Australia's national road champion Simon Gerrans wants world cycling body to get tough.

Believe me, I’m clean: Gerrans

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

Cycling

Evans to handle cycling doping crisis his way

Samantha Lane Cadel Evans will address sport's doping crisis on his own terms and in his own time.

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...