Caffeine in coffee can help athletes to show better results. According to their calculations, caffeine can improve results by about 6%. The reason lies in the fact that caffeine can improve endurance. Particularly relevant are the property of caffeine may be at long-distance running (marathon).
6% - it is not too small for the athletes, because often the gap between them in the course of the competition may be a split second. If some of the athletes drink coffee, but the overall picture of the results of the competition can be quite different. Nevertheless, at this moment coffee is not among the substances prohibited by anti-doping committee. However, before he was in the list, but in 2004 it decided to exclude.
Doctors from the UK believe that coffee should be made to the list of banned drugs again - at least for professional athletes. However, the introduction of caffeine to the list of banned substances associated with complications. The fact that caffeine is contained in a large number of products and speech here is not only a ban on coffee. Athletes will be difficult to control the absence of caffeine doping in the body.