New swim boss starts with pill ban Swimming Australia's new high performance director Michael Scott will make the banning of Stilnox by team members one of his first moves in drawing a "line in the sand" after the disappointing Olympic performance last year. Scott, who officially started his first day with the organisation Wednesday, said while Stilnox was not banned under WADA or ASADA guidelines, it was commonsense for the swim team to fall in line with the Australian Olympic Commitee's policies. The AOC banned use of Stilnox among the Olympic team in the lead-up to London. Australia's 4x100 metre freestyle relay team became embroiled in controversy when it was revealed that members had taken the sleeping drug during an unruly bonding session at a pre-Games camp in Manchester. We all know that's it's not banned by ASADA or WADA, but the peak event every four years is the Olympics so if the AOC has set that standard that's something that we should work towards. You look at the last four years and you just see how the public, the media, the Australian community values the Olympic result, and that's has to be a focus and anything that we take into consideration has to look at those external AOC and WADA policies. It's something that I have to take to the high performance committee and discuss it but to me it's commonsense. You've got to work in that environment in four years (so) you've got to prepare for the environment now.