WADA president: we don’t plan to prohibit caffeine in sports

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) considers that caffeine should belong to prohibited substances of the World Anti-Doping Agency. The president of the AOC John Coates confirms that caffeine promotes addiction to sleeping remedies and tranquilizers.
It is known that the Australian swimmers that participated at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics administered sleeping tablets Stilnox. Thus, John Coates confirms that administration of caffeine resulted in administration of Stilnox.
Stilnox is often sold under the commercial name Zolpidem. It is a sleeping remedy that is administered in case of insomnia.
The president of AOC claims that athletes use caffeine in order to increase performance. Consumption of this substance leads to insomnia. So, athletes have to use sleeping remedies for treatment of insomnia.
 The AOC and Swimming Australia desire to ban consumption of caffeine. It is their response to the disgrace linked with Grant Hackett. A physician recommended taking Stilnox to this swimmer at the time of the 2003 World Championships. As a result, Grant Hackett became addicted to this sleeping remedy.
Grant Hackett is a prominent swimmer. He won many competitions, including the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Alan Thompson, the former coach of the Australian Olympic Team, has also affirmed that administration of Stilnox is widely spread among Australian swimmers.
Stilnox was never on the list of prohibited drugs. Anti-doping agencies didn’t conduct tests to disclose intake of this product.
But when it comes to caffeine, earlier it was banned by the WADA. But since it became widely spread and used in society, it was excluded from the list of banned drugs.
John Fahey, the president of the WADA, notes that the WADA made the right decision and excluded caffeine from list of banned substances. He claimed that caffeine would not be included in the list of prohibited medications again.
However a lot of experts claim that caffeine is a performance enhancer, John Fahey contests this argument. He affirms that caffeine doesn’t impact on performance. The president of the WADA concludes that no any scientific literature describes capacity of caffeine to enhance performance.