Peyton Manning Calls Al Jazeera Report Linking Him to Doping Ring ‘a Joke’

Peyton Manning the Star NFL quarterback that is accused of using the performance-enhancing drug HGH while recovering from a neck injury in 2011 said the Al Jazeera report linking him to performance-enhancing drugs is “a joke, a freaking joke.”

Manning, who had an interview with ESPN’s Lisa Salters said he was furious and disgusted and as accused Al Jazeera of defamation and adamantly denied he ever used the human growth hormone (HGH).  “Absolutely not, absolutely not, what hurts me the most about this, whoever this guy is, this slapstick trying to insinuate that in 2011, when more than less I had a broken neck — I had four neck surgeries… It stings me whoever this guy is to insinuate that I cut corners, I broke NFL rules in order to get healthy. It’s a joke. It’s a freaking joke, he said.

Al Jazeera’s explosive investigation said the Denver Broncos quarterback, is one of several high-profile athletes who were supplied the drug. The report claimed that steroids and other drugs were shipped to Manning’s home in 2011 in the name of his wife, Ashley, so that the quarterback’s name was never attached to the shipments. The documentary claimed that Manning was given human growth hormone in 2011 while he was recovering from neck surgery. Charlie Sly, who allegedly spoke to an undercover reporter working for Al Jazeera, was named as Manning’s drug connection. In the report, titled “The Dark Side,” British hurdler Liam Collins went undercover to expose the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in international sports. As part of his cover, Collins told medical professionals tied to the doping trade that he planned to compete in the 2016 Olympics