Al Jazeera presents ‘second source’ linking Peyton Manning to HGH shipments
The Peyton Manning-HGH story is not going away.
An Al Jazeera reporter stood by last week’s report linking Peyton Manning to HGH shipments, doubling down on the story with a second, “impeccably placed’’ source.
In an interview with CNN Sunday, reporter Deborah Davies said another independent source corroborated the information given by Charlie Sly, a former worker at the Guyer Institute of Molecular Medicine. Sly was captured on undercover tapes aired by Al Jazeera saying, via CNN, “all the time we would be sending Ashley Manning drugs. Like growth hormone, all the time, everywhere, Florida. And it would never be under Peyton’s name, it would always be under her name.’’
Peyton Manning has strongly denied the accusations, which place the shipments in 2011. Sly himself has recanted. But Al Jazeera is not backing down from the story. From CNN:
“Davies said she could not identify the anonymous source, but called the person “absolutely impeccably placed, knowledgeable, and credible,’’ someone who gave Al Jazeera more confidence in what Sly said on tape. She said the source confirmed that shipments of HGH, or human growth hormone, were “repeatedly sent to Ashley Manning in Florida and other places in the U.S.’’
Ashley Manning has not denied receiving shipments, and the NFL has said it will review the accusations.
There doesn’t appear to be unanimity in how — or even if — the Manning HGH accusations should be discussed. CBS broadcaster Jim Nantz was on the call for Sunday’s Broncos-Chargers game and was quoted beforehand as saying he would not be mentioning it.
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