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Manning scoffs at doping claims
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FIVE-TIME National Football League Most Valuable Player Peyton Manning on Saturday branded allegations in an upcoming al-Jazeera documentary that an Indianapolis anti-aging clinic supplied him with human growth hormone as “complete garbage”.
“The allegation that I would do something like that is complete garbage and totally made up,” Manning said in a statement issued through the Denver Broncos to US media. “It never happened. Never. I really can’t believe somebody would put something like this on the air. Whoever said this is making stuff up.”
Neither the NFL nor the Broncos commented on the allegations, which are included in an al-Jazeera investigative report due to air today, which was shared in advance with The Huffington Post.
According to The Huffington Post, in the report titled “The Dark Side” British hurdler Liam Collins went undercover to expose the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports.
As part of his probe Collins met with Charles Sly, a former pharmacist at the anti-aging Guyer Clinic in Indianapolis, where Manning once played for the NFL’s Colts. Sly said that he mailed HGH to Manning’s household in 2011, sending it to Manning’s wife, Ashley, to avoid a link to the sports star.
However, in a follow-up interview with al-Jazeera, Sly recanted the allegation, saying they were “absolutely false and incorrect”.
The NFL collective bargaining agreement ratified in 2011 banned the use of HGH. However, the league did not begin testing for the substance until 2014.
Manning missed the 2011 season because of multiple neck surgeries, and joined the Broncos as a free agent prior to the 2012 campaign. The 39-year-old is one of the icons of the NFL but hasn’t played since November 15, as he battles a torn plantar fascia in his left foot.
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