Samantha Lane joined The Age in 2005 and has specialised in the coverage of Australian Rules football, cycling, Olympic sports and drugs in sport. A Quill award winner and part of the Fairfax team that won a Walkley award in 2014 for its coverage of the AFL’s doping scandal, Sam has rich multimedia experience. She is part of the Seven network’s Saturday night AFL television coverage and was previously a panellist on network Ten's Before the Game. Sam was The Age’s Olympics reporter for the 2012 London Olympics, and covered the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games for Fairfax. Her work has won awards from the Australian Sports Commission, the Victorian Institute of Sport, the AFL Players Association and the AFL Coaches Association.
The targeted besmirching of Australia's Olympic swim team is baseless and unfair, Rio deputy chef de mission Matt Favier has declared in yet another recrimination from a misfire Games. Tabling a position apparently at odds with opinions formed by his superior in Brazil, team boss Kitty Chiller, Australian Institute of Sport director Favier has described swimmers "as integrated as any other athlete" in Brazil.
Australia's sports commission is pursuing a lottery funding model of the kind that has transformed Great Britain into a behemoth.
It is territory less travelled for elite female cyclists to have the countdown to a major event like Sunday's Olympic road race in Rio overshadowed by drug-related controversy.
Elizabeth Cambage has revealed how a 'blackface' controversy that saw her fall out with fellow Opal Alice Kunek has been resolved with a peace-making in the countdown to the Rio Olympics.
Five sports, including baseball, skateboarding and surfing, will feature at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in an attempt to revamp the Games programme to attract a younger audience.
John Steffensen, long considered an enfant terrible of Australian athletics, has joined the national sports federation as a director.
John Steffensen is calling it straight. Of course he is. Big things have changed since he was cast an enfant terrible of the last Australian Olympic team. But in sporting retirement the man who generated hot headlines aplenty during his 12-year professional sprint career has hardly become a wallflower.
Simon Clarke has won an 11th hour call-up to Australia's Rio Olympics team with the 30-year-old cyclist set to be named replacement for injured road race scratching Simon Gerrans.
A broken collarbone that has ruined Simon Gerrans' Tour de France stands to crush his Rio Olympics plans and severely damage Australia's chances in the men's road race.
Australia's Olympic committee has decried the imminent closure of one of the nation's few premier gymnastics programs.
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