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Time will tell if the reporting is true. If so, a damning case for the game, and just sports in general. Very disheartening.
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An Indianapolis anti-aging clinic supplied quarterback Peyton Manning with human growth hormone, a performance-enhancing drug banned by the NFL, a pharmacist who once worked at the clinic asserts in a new special report from Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit.
The report, “The Dark Side,” is the result of a monthslong investigation in which Liam Collins, a British hurdler, went undercover in an attempt to expose the widespread nature of performance-enhancing drugs in global sports. As a cover story, Collins tells medical professionals tied to the trade of performance-enhancing drugs that he is hoping for one last shot at glory at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Manning is just one of many high-profile players the report names and raises questions about.
I can't help but LMFAO at Al Jazeera reporting the story! What do they know about American Football??
Considering that Al Jazeera has significant operation in the United States, probably more than you assume. Either way knowledge of the NFL isn't needed to report athletes using banned substances. Heck, most Americans don't know anything about cycling other than Lance Armstrong. American sports media is likely among the least qualified regarding cycling but that didn't make reporting on the dope scandal irrelevant.
America's sport. America's heroes. It all fits so nicely.
For those that discount Al Jazeera, it is a very high quality news effort, formerly own by Al Gore, I believe. He sold it to Al Jazeera a couple of years ago and they have kept is as a sort of PBS evening news type format. Not their fault the guy said what he said. He spouted off on camera. Then likely got paid a LOT of money or threatened with death, and he tried to recant.
But once the cat is out of the bag, it is hard to squelch the story (and who doesn't already believe that these super human athletes are running on all manner of drugs? They are just pieces of meat, paid a lot of money to perform, and discarded like used trash once they are done making a fortune for themselves, the league, the team's owners, and the broadcast media.
What do any of those people care if the performers are juiced to the moon as long as the package sells?
sometimes where there is smoke there is fire, however in this case i doubt that manning was doping. or if he was, he has been doing for a very long time, and that would make it much easier for more than one person to step forward and make claims against him. armstrong had a lot of people step up and make the claim that he was doping.
how many people over the years have laid claim that manning has been doping?
however there is an air of dishonesty in this story, seems the "insider" mr collins is no angel to begin with;
but then mannings wife is not a pro athlete now is she?
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