Report: HGH, other drugs were shipped to Peyton Manning’s wife
An Indianapolis clinic reportedly shipped performance-enhacing drugs, including human-growth hormones, to the house of Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, according to a report by Al Jazeera via Huffington Post.
According to “The Dark Side,” an undercover investigation of performance-enhancing drugs in sports, pharmacist Charlie Sly, who worked at the Guyer Institute, the Indiana-based anti-aging clinic, in 2011 — when Manning was a member of the Indianapolis Colts — said the team there helped Manning rehab from a neck injury that caused him to miss the entire season that year. The following season, Manning joined the Broncos as a free agent.
Sly alleges the clinic sent growth hormone and other drugs to Ashley Manning, Manning’s wife, so that there could never be a connection to Peyton. On an undercover video, Sly said the Mannings also came to the clinic after normal business hours for intravenous treatments.
“All the time we would be sending Ashley Manning drugs,” Sly says in the video. “Like growth hormone, all the time, everywhere, Florida. And it would never be under Peyton’s name, it would always be under her name.”
Manning denied the allegations, calling it “complete garbage” in a statement to the NFL Network’s Albert Breer:
HGH has been banned by the NFL since the new 2011 collective-bargaining agreement, but testing did not begin until 2014. The union and the league spent more than two years bargaining on how to test the athletes. No player is believed to have ever been tested positive for HGH.
In a video statement, Sly says his statements in Al Jazeera’s report were “absolutely false and incorrect.”
Other professional athletes, including several major league baseball players, are named in the report. Sly also name drops Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews, saying he provided him with prescription painkiller Percocet and that Matthews reached out to him for Toradol, a common, legal and powerful painkiller.
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