Wallaby admits to pre-match caffeine boost

AUSTRALIAN rugby captain George Gregan said he gets a 7% performance boost by taking caffeine tablets before big games.

He said many Wallabies take ‘No-Doz’ with the blessing of physiologists from the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), after caffeine was taken off the banned list 18 months ago.

“They did a test on it at the AIS, where I think it was based on a volume of maybe six tablets and no one in the team takes that,” Gregan said.