Legendary coach questions AOC boss contender
Australian sports icon Ric Charlesworth claims a former hockey charge, Danni Roche, would be an unworthy replacement for John Coates as Olympic committee boss.
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Samantha Lane
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.
I'm petrified by what AFLW means for basketball: Bibby
Basketball has plummeted into an abyss, in terms of attractiveness to Australian women, compared to the sporting steam train launched by the behemoth AFL.
Cycling stunner: Australian champ set to race for Russia
Gutted by being left out of Australia's track cycling team for the Rio Olympics, Shane Perkins has moved to switch sporting nations and compete for Russia at the 2020 Tokyo Games. The 30-year-old who won a world title for Australia five years ago and gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, has already been photographed in Russian team kit and posted the image on his Facebook page.
Daylight between target and reality: Equality goal set for woman jockeys
Michelle Payne's infamous "get stuffed" line, which blew the whistle on her experience in an industry she termed "chauvinist", was the catalyst for examinations at Racing Victoria that have led to an equality target setting for female jockeys.
False dawn? After Payne's iconic Cup have female jockeys really progressed?
False dawn? Michelle Payne is an Australian icon but 12 months after she smashed a glass ceiling have female jockeys really progressed? Samantha Lane asks the question.
'Not in my wildest dreams': Payne wins Don prize
An unprecedented ride followed by unforgettable comments in victory has seen Michelle Payne awarded the esteemed Don prize for producing the most inspired moment in Australian sport in the past year.
The rise and rise of Mark Arbib
Mark Arbib's meteoric rise in sport continues. Athletics Australia president for just under a year, the former federal minister has been appointed to the Australian Olympic Committee's executive.
Women's AFL pay OK (for now), says McGuire
A $5000 average wage for footballers in the AFL's women's league is a reasonable start for the pioneers soon to embark on what - officially - will be a five-month commitment, according to Collingwood president Eddie McGuire.
New-look Collingwood - same, same but different
A new-look Collingwood is unveiled to the rapture of club president Eddie McGuire. This super fit, fresh, athletic incarnation is black and white clad, will sing 'Good Old Collingwood Forever' in victory. It has a coach, a general manager and will call the Holden Centre home.
Criticism of Australian Olympic swim team unfair: deputy chef de mission
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.
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