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
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
Review gives officials confidence
Samantha Lane Australian cycling bosses privately relieved over findings of federal government review.
Cycling
Cycling body to act on drugs review
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.
Cycling
Gerrans to lead team
Samantha Lane Orica-GreenEDGE apparently less concerned about winning Tour Down Under this year.
Cycling body to act on drugs review
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...
O'Grady to be quizzed
Samantha Lane Stuart O'Grady faces more questioning as part of government body's investigation into doping in cycling.
Cycling
Academy to help budding professionals
Samantha Lane Cycling Australia is creating a new academy to grooming budding road professionals.
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...
Samantha Lane
Can of worms open, it's time to come clean
Samantha Lane The Orica-GreenEDGE team has a crisis of the highest order on its hands. Not to mention Cycling Australia.
Cycling
Glory goes to Goss in GreenEdge win
Samantha Lane GreenEDGE'S first victory in Europe surprised even the team's awestruck directors.
