NFL star Peyton Manning denies doping with human growth hormone

Five-time NFL Most Valuable Player Peyton Manning branded allegations in an upcoming Al-Jazeera documentary that an Indianapolis anti-aging clinic supplied him with human growth hormone as “complete garbage.”

“The allegation that I would do something like that is complete garbage and totally made up,” Manning said in a statement issued through the Denver Broncos to US media.

“It never happened. Never. I really can’t believe somebody would put something like this on the air. Whoever said this is making stuff up.”

According to The Huffington Post, in the report titled “The Dark Side” British hurdler Liam Collins went undercover to expose the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports.

As part of his probe Collins met with Charles Sly, a former pharmacist at the anti-aging Guyer Clinic in Indianapolis, where Manning once played for the NFL’s Colts.

Sly said he mailed HGH to Manning’s household in 2011, sending it to Manning’s wife, Ashley to avoid a link to the sports star.