Radès, Tunisia
Radès harbor
Radès, Tunisia Location in Tunisia
Coordinates: 36°46′N 10°17′E / 36.767°N 10.283°E / 36.767; 10.283
Country	Tunisia
Governorate	Ben Arous Governorate
Elevation	160 ft (50 m)
Population (2007)
• Total	75,893
• Ethnicities	Arab
• Religions	Islam
Time zone	CET (UTC1)
Postal code	2040

Radès (Arabic: رادس‎) is a harbour city in Ben Arous Governorate, Tunisia. Situated 9 kilometres south-east of the capital Tunis, some consider it a Tunis suburb, and parts of the harbour installations of Tunis are located in Radès.

The Tunisia national football team plays its matches there, at the 65,000 capacity National Stadium of Rades.

Rades is divided into subcities: Radès Medina, Radès Méliane, Rades Forêt, Chouchet Radès, El Malleha, Noubou and The Olympic city.

References[link]

Coordinates: 36°46′N 10°17′E / 36.767°N 10.283°E / 36.767; 10.283

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Oussama Mellouli
أسامة الملولي

Personal information
Nickname(s)	Ous
Nationality	Tunisia
Born	(1984-02-16) 16 February 1984 (age 28) Tunis, Tunisia
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Stroke(s)	Free, IM
Club	Trojan Swim Club (USA)
College team	USC Trojans (USA)
Medal record Men's swimming Competitor for  Tunisia Olympic Games Gold 2008 Beijing 1500 m freestyle World Championships (LC) Gold 2009 Rome 1500 m freestyle Silver 2009 Rome 400 m freestyle Silver 2009 Rome 800 m freestyle Bronze 2003 Barcelona 400 m medley Bronze 2005 Montreal[1] 400 m freestyle Bronze 2005 Montreal 400 m medley World Championships (SC) Gold 2004 Indianapolis 400 m medley Gold 2010 Dubai 1500 m freestyle Silver 2010 Dubai 400 m medley Bronze 2004 Indianapolis[2] 200 m medley Bronze 2010 Dubai 200 m freestyle Bronze 2010 Dubai 400 m freestyle Mediterranean Games Gold 2005 Almería 800 m freestyle Gold 2005 Almería 200 m medley Gold 2005 Almería 400 m medley Gold 2009 Pescara 200 m freestyle Gold 2009 Pescara 200 m medley Gold 2009 Pescara 400 m freestyle Gold 2009 Pescara 400 m medley Gold 2009 Pescara 1500 m freestyle

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Oussama "Ous" Mellouli (Arabic: أسامة الملولي‎; born February 16, 1984) is a Tunisian swimmer who competes in the freestyle and medley events. He currently is an African Record holder, and trains with the USA club based at the University of Southern California, where he went to school and swam, collegiately.

Oussama Mellouli became the 1500 m freestyle World champion at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships with a winning time of 14'37"28, second best performance of all time. Mellouli is the gold medalist in the 1500 freestyle at the 2008 Olympics. Mellouli tested positive in a 2006 drug test, after which his performances in the 2007 World Championships were nullified.

Biography[link]

Born in Tunis, Mellouli left Tunisia at the age of 15 to study at the College of Rampart in Marseilles, France. After his graduation, he continued his studies at the University of Southern California and swam for the USC Trojans. He is a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program.

2003[link]

He first established himself on the world scene at the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain with a bronze-medal performance in the 400m Individual Medley.

2004[link]

He further distinguished himself at the 2004 FINA Short Course World Championships in Indianapolis, USA where he won the first international-level gold medal in swimming for Tunisia, in the 400 IM. At the 2004 Short Course Worlds he also garnered a silver medal in the 200 IM.

At the 2004 Olympics he finished 5th in the 400 IM, setting the African Record in the process.

2005[link]

He bettered that mark with his bronze-medal swim in the 400 IM event at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Canada. He also won the bronze-medal in the 400 freestyle at that same event.

He also won three gold medals (800 m freestyle, 400m medley, 200m medley) at the XVth Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain.

2006[link]

On December 1, 2006, Oussama Mellouli beat Michael Phelps in the 400m IM at the U.S. Open in West Lafayette: Mellouli clocked 4:15.61, ahead of Phelps with 4:18.32.^[3] This swim however was subsequently placed within Mellouli's 18-month doping ban, and the results nullified, as the drug test where the banned substance was found occurred at this meet (see section below for further information).

2007[link]

On February 19, 2007, he broke his own African Record in the 200m individual medley for the fourth time since 2003 at the USA Swimming Grand Prix meet, held at the Mizzou Aquatic Center at the University of Missouri. He also set a new African record in the 400 meter individual medley.

On March 25, 2007, he won the silver in the 400m freestyle (3:45.12) at the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne, Australia. Three days later, on March 28, he swam to the first Tunisian World Championship in swimming in winning the 800m freestyle in a then African Record of 7:46.95 — one of the top 10 fastest times ever. However, due to his positive drug-testing result from a in-competition test from December 2006 and the 18-month competition ban imposed on him on 11 September 2007 by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), retroactive from 30 November 2006 forward, his 2007 World Championships results have been nullified. He was also a finalist in the 400m Individual Medley, where he originally finished fourth in 4:11.68.

Following the September 11, 2007 ruling by CAS, Mellouli was not allowed to compete again up mid-2008. All of Mellouli's results from 2007 have been nullified, per his September 2007 doping suspension, related to his positive test from December 2006 (see section below).

2008[link]

Mellouli won the 1500 freestyle at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. In doing so, he became the first African male swimmer to ever win an Olympic gold medal in an individual swimming event (the South African men's 4x100m Free Relay won the event at the 2004 Olympics).

2009[link]

Mellouli won 5 gold medals (200m and 400m individual medley, and 200m, 400m and 1500m freestyles) at the XVI Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy.

In the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, held in Rome during the summer, Mellouli won a gold medal in the 1500 meter freestyle and 2 silver medals in the 400 meter freestyle and 800 meter freestyle.

2010[link]

Mellouli won 4 medals ( 1 gold in the 1500 freestyle; 1 silver in the 400 medley and 2 bronzes in the 200 m freestyle and the 400 m freestyle) at the 2010 FINA Short Course World Championships (25m) in Dubai, UAE

Positive drug test[link]

A few weeks after the conclusion of the 2007 World Championships, reports began to surface that Mellouli had tested positive for a banned substance at the 2006 U.S. Open, November 30 – December 2, 2006. These reports surfaced because FINA, the international governing body of the sport, had discovered that Tunisian authorities had known about the positive test but had only given him a warning. FINA/WADA rules state that when an athlete tests positive for a banned substance, he or she must be given a 2-year ban from the sport. Accordingly, FINA took the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), demanding stiffer sanction.

Mellouli has since admitted that he took the ADD medication Adderall, a stimulant and a form of amphetamine. (Already in June 2006, an American sports commentator wrote: Various studies show rampant use of Adderall, Ritalin and other drugs normally used for attention deficit disorder instead applied toward all-night cramming sessions.^[4] ) Mellouli did not have a prescription for the drug, having claimed to have received it from another USC student shortly before the US Open. He argued that he took the pill in order to help himself with writing a term paper (to sustain or enhance his academic performance) in the days leading up to the weekend US Open meet, and that the drug was not intended as a performance-enhancing substance for competitive swimming. However, amphetamines are on the official banned substances list; and can/do help swimming performance.^[5]

Wikinews has related news: Tunisian swimmer Oussama Mellouli stripped of championship for doping

CAS ruled on Mellouli's case on September 11, 2007, ruling against him and issuing him an 18-month competition suspension, retroactively beginning on November 30, 2006. As a result of this sanction, all his results from the 2006 U.S. Open through the competitions his swam in 2007, including the 2007 World Championships, were nullified. Interestingly, and perhaps conscientiously, his ban from competition covered most, but not all, of the qualification window for the 2008 Olympics. As the retroactive nullification of results wiped out all of his qualifying times for the 2008 Games, he ended up with just a week or two after the ban in order to qualify (which he did).

Achievements[link]

• 2009 World Championships – 1 gold medal (1500 m freestyle) and 2 silver medals (400 m freestyle, 800 m freestyle)
• 2008 Summer Olympics – gold medal (1500 m freestyle)
• 2007 World Championships — results nullified.
• 2005 World Championships – bronze medal (400m individual medley and 400m freestyle)
• 2004 Olympic Games – fifth place (400 m individual medley)
• 2004 FINA Short Course World Championships – bronze medal (200 m individual medley)
• 2004 FINA Short Course World Championships – gold medal (400 m individual medley)
• 2003 World Championships – bronze medal (400 m individual medley)

See also[link]

• Adderall#Performance-enhancing use
• List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Oussama Mellouli

• Personal webpage of Oussama Mellouli at the University of Southern California