Athletes use caffeine to boost performance, says research
Monday, July 28th, 2008Sixty percent of cyclists and one third of track and field athletes reported using caffeine before competing, a Liverpool John Moores University study found. Caffeine was removed from the list of banned substances in 2004 but its use is still monitored. The study’s authors said it raised concerns that athletes were exploiting caffeine to gain an advantage.
In recent years there have been widely publicised fears about increasing doping in sport and Beijing officials are planning on doing 25% more drug tests than were done in Athens.