Consumption of caffeine leads to addiction to sleeping tablets

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) confirms that caffeine should belong to prohibited products of the World Anti-Doping Agency. The president of the AOC John Coates affirms that caffeine induces addiction to sleeping remedies and tranquilizers.
It is known that the Australian swimmers that participated at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics applied sleeping tablets Stilnox. So, John Coates confirms that usage of caffeine resulted in intake of Stilnox.
Stilnox is usually sold under the trade name Zolpidem. It is a sleeping remedy that is recommended to cure insomnia.
The president of AOC claims that sportspeople use caffeine in order to increase performance. Usage of this substance leads to insomnia. So, sportspersons should apply sleeping remedies in order to cure insomnia.
 The AOC and Swimming Australia want to ban usage of caffeine. It is their response to the disgrace connected with Grant Hackett. A physician recommended administering Stilnox to this athlete 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 usage of Stilnox is widely spread among Australian swimmers.
Stilnox was never on the list of prohibited products. Anti-doping agencies didn’t conduct tests to discover intake of this preparation.
But when it comes to caffeine, earlier it was banned by the WADA. But since it became widely spread and consumed in society, it was excluded from the list of banned medicines.
John Fahey, the president of the WADA, notes that the WADA made the right decision and excluded caffeine from list of prohibited medicines. He claimed that caffeine would not be included in the list of forbidden drugs again.
However numerous experts state that caffeine is a performance enhancer, John Fahey contests this statement. He confirms that caffeine doesn’t impact on performance. He concludes that no any scientific literature proves ability of caffeine to increase performance.