Reporter Stands By Peyton Manning Doping Allegation

The Al Jazeera reporter behind a documentary probing doping in global sports, that accused Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning and other top athletes of using human growth hormone, defended the story in an interview with MSNBC on Monday.

Deborah Davies said Manning has not denied that he had HGH — a drug banned by the NFL — secretly shipped to his wife in 2011 while he was still with the Indianapolis Colts and recovering from a neck injury.

Manning, who has dismissed the report as "garbage" and vowed to sue Al Jazeera, addressed the allegation regarding his wife on ESPN after the network's report aired Sunday night.

"That has nothing to do with me. Nothing that's been sent to her or (that) my wife has used have I ever taken." 

Charlie Sly, the pharmacist whom the network secretly recorded making the explosive allegations about Manning and others, has recanted his own words.

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