Al Jazeera Reporter Says Doping Documentary “Not Making the Allegation Against”
“The allegation that I would do something like that is complete garbage and is totally made up”.
And the number one thing he may be trying to save now is his reputation. Sly then may have thrown out the names of big American athletes to either up his street cred or to test Collins (or maybe both). It takes 40 minutes into the 50-minute documentary before the show starts focusing on the Denver Broncos’ quarterback. The documentarians, in turn, insist they carefully laid an allegation at the feet of Mrs. Manning rather than the NFL’s all-time leader in yardage through the air and passing touchdowns. This is a point nearly everyone has missed.
If Peyton Manning plans on suing for Sunday night’s Al Jazeera report, he may have a tough go at it, legal experts say.
The release of the documentary has spurred Manning and his advisors into action. That’s disingenuous and reckless. Manning was treated at the facility in 2011 for neck injuries.
Manning said he was a patient of the institute in 2011, but his treatments – use of a hyperbaric chamber, intravenous nutrient treatments and enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP), a non-surgical treatment that aims to increase blood flow – were under the supervision of the Indianapolis Colts.
Staff at the Guyer Institute declined to speak to a Daily News reporter at the clinic on Monday, and no one answered the door at Dale Guyer’s home in the Indianapolis suburb of Fisher. She says the report only claims that Manning’s wife, Ashley, received packages of HGH.
Davies said that Al Jazeera isn’t “changing anything” and that her investigative team stands by “everything in the program”. Frankly, I don’t see Manning playing another year, although you really never know what’s in the mind of a player who is struggling letting go of the past.
Peyton Manning was accused of breaking the rules and Tom Brady knows how that feels. There’s even an angry response from Manning’s agent about the insinuations put forth by Al Jazeera. When Guthrie asked if the documentary had any evidence against Manning, Davis replied “We aren’t making the allegation against Peyton Manning”.
In its documentary, Al Jazeera reported that Sly had worked at the Guyer clinic in 2011.
The squeaky-clean Manning may not be so clean as first thought. An already shaky story, at least when it comes to the parts about Peyton Manning, looks even worse.
Guyer said, “I find it extremely disturbing that the source of Al Jazeera’s story, a former unpaid intern named Charles Sly, would violate the privacy of Mrs. Manning’s medical records and be so callous and destructive as to purposely fabricate and spread stories that are simply not true”.