Al Jazeera reported that Manning in 2011 used human growth hormone, a claim that the NFL quarterback vehemently denied, as did the Denver Broncos and Indianapolis Colts.
An investigation by Al Jazeera released Sunday reported that NFL star Peyton Manning in 2011 used human growth hormone, a performance enhancing drug.
Titled “The Dark Side,” the hourlong documentary followed former British hurdler Liam Collins as he went undercover to speak with pharmacists, doctors, and others who said they had been involved with supplying performance enhancing drugs to athletes.
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Al Jazeeras report was based on a secret recording of an interview with Charlie Sly, who in 2011 worked at an anti-aging clinic that treated Manning after he broke his neck.
Sly first told Al Jazeera that Manning and his wife, Ashley, would receive IV treatments after hours at the clinic. Sly also said shipments of human growth hormone were sent to Ashley Manning, which he believed were actually used by her husband.
Sly later said that he did not know he was being recorded and his statements were false.
“I am recanting any such statements and there is no truth to any statement of mine that Al Jazeera plans to air,” he said.
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Davies said she absolutely sticks by Al Jazeera’s reporting. “Look at [Sly’s] demeanor in those conversations,” Davies said, referring the more than 20 hours of secretly recorded interviews with Sly. “He’s giving fact upon fact upon fact,”
Al Jazeera issued a request for Sly to respond to the interviews three weeks before the documentary aired, Davies said.
He did not respond until the day of release.When asked about Sly’s claim that Collins had used Sly’s grief over his recently deceased fiancée to “badger him” into giving Collins information, Davies said no one at Al Jazeera was aware of Sly’s fiancée’s recent suicide.
Davies added that though both Manning and Sly have dismissed the report, no one has denied Al Jazeera’s claim that HGHs were shipped to Ashley Manning in 2011.
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