Australian Olympic Committee: caffeine should be banned in sports

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) believes that caffeine should belong to prohibited preparations of the World Anti-Doping Agency. The president of the AOC John Coates claims that caffeine promotes addiction to sleeping pills and tranquillisers.
It is known that the Australian swimmers that competed at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics took sleeping pills Stilnox. So, John Coates believes that administration of caffeine resulted in usage of Stilnox.
Stilnox is ordinarily sold under the commercial name Zolpidem. It is a sleeping remedy that is taken to cure insomnia.
John Coates notices that athletes use caffeine for its effects on performance. Usage of this substance leads to insomnia. So, sportspersons have to use sleeping pills in order to cure insomnia.
 The AOC and Swimming Australia want to ban consumption of caffeine. It is their response to the disgrace related to Grant Hackett. A doctor 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 celebrated 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 confirmed that administration of Stilnox is widely spread among Australian swimmers.
Stilnox was never on the list of banned preparations. Anti-doping agencies didn’t conduct tests to disclose administration of this medicine.
But as for caffeine, previously it was prohibited by the WADA. But since it became widely spread and used in society, it was excluded from the list of banned products.
John Fahey, the president of the WADA, claims that the WADA made the right decision and excluded caffeine from list of prohibited drugs. He confirmed that caffeine would not be included in the list of prohibited medications again.
However a lot of experts state that caffeine is a performance enhancer, John Fahey contests this statement. He affirms that caffeine doesn’t influence on performance. The president of the WADA concludes that no any scientific literature describes capacity of caffeine to enhance performance.