Flávia Maria de Oliveira Paparella (born 27 October 1981) is a Brazilian

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. She competed in the 2013 UCI Women's World Championship Road Race in

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, as well as the 2014 UCI Women's Road World Championships in Ponferrada. She competed at the

2016 Olympic Games ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro d ...

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where she finished in seventh place, the highest placed finish for a Brazilian rider in any Olympic cycling event. Oliveira is a past winner of the mountains classification at the

Giro d'Italia Femminile The is an annual elite women's road bicycle racing stage race. It was rebranded from 2013-2020 as the Giro Rosa, having been branded the Giro Donne until 2012 and again in 2021. It has been considered the most prestigious stage race in women's ...

in 2015, the Brazilian National Road Race Championships, and she was the winner of the general and mountain classifications at the 2016

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. During a coaching session early in Oliveira's career, she recorded one of the highest V̇O₂ max scores ever across all athletics for females.

Controls

In June 2009, in her first year as a professional, Oliveira tested positive for oxilofrine, a stimulant, while racing with the Italian professional team SC Michela Fanini at the Giro del Trentino Donne. The adverse finding came from a supplement purchased in the United States that did not include oxilofrine on the ingredients label. In fact, several supplement companies were making products that contained oxilofrine without indicating the substance on the label. Oliveira later sued the supplement manufacturer. In December 2009 the ban was reduced through an appeal to CAS after the panel found that she had not intentionally ingested the banned substance and there was no way that she could have known that the supplement would have contained a banned substance. This would see her resume competition on 1 March 2011. A second positive occurred nine years later on 26 June 2018 at the Brazilian Road Championships. Oliveira won the race and was allowed to maintain the title of champion of Brasil after the hearing. In a unanimous decision, the arbitration panel ruled that Oliveira did not ingest the contaminant intentionally and in fact, the contaminant entered her system after the race had completed. Oliveira returned to racing shortly after, recording her best ever finish in a World Cup Event at GP Plouay, where she finished 8th. In 2020, the prescribed use of vilanterol to treat an acute condition caused an adverse finding for Oliveira. Oliveira established she had no significant fault or negligence with respect to the violation. USADA granted a TUE to Oliveira for the medication after the fact. Additionally, WADA made the determination that vilanterol is not performance enhancing and removed it from the 2021 prohibited list when used as Oliveira did.

2020 Olympic Bid

While preparing for the

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, Oliveira was struck by a car and suffered a broken pelvis. After rehabilitation, Oliveira collected enough Olympic qualification points to provisionally qualify her for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. However, three weeks before the 2019 Road World Championships, Oliveira suffered a crash in the GP Fourmies in France that effectively ended her season.

Major results

;2007 : 1st Mount Diablo Hill Climb : 4th Vacaville Gran Prix : 5th Giro di San Francisco : 7th Mount Tamalpais Hill Climb : 7th Wente Vineyards Road Race : 8th Berkeley Hills Road Race : 9th Overall Mt. Hood Cycling Classic ;2008 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall California Cup : 1st Mount Tamalpais Hill Climb : 1st Stinson Beach Mt Tamalpais Hill Climb : 1st Dunnigan Hills Road Race : 1st San Ardo Road Race : 1st Patterson Pass Road Race : 2nd Santa Cruz University Road Race : 2nd Suisun Harbor Criterium : 2nd Berkeley Bicycle Club Criterium : 3rd Mount Hamilton Classic : 3rd Mount Diablo Hill Climb : 4th Vacaville Gran Prix : 5th Wente Vineyards Road Race : 5th Giro di San Francisco : 6th Norlund Construction, Inc. Corporate Criterium : 6th Memorial Day Criterium : 7th Merco Credit Union – Downtown Grand Prix : 7th Davis 4th of July Criterium ;2009 : 4th Overall Tour Féminin en Limousin : 8th

Giro del Friuli Giro del Friuli is a road bicycle race held annually in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. The first edition took place in 1974. From 2005 to 2008 the race was suspended, but it returned in 2009 as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Contine ...

: 9th Overall

La Route de France The Route de France Féminine is a women's cycle race. First held in 2006, it was rated 2.2 by the UCI for the 2006 and 2007 edition, and 2.1 since. The race was cancelled in 2011, but returned the next year. With the ending of the Grande Bouc ...

;2011 : 2nd Mike's Bikes Cat's Hill Classic : 3rd Overall

Sea Otter Classic The Sea Otter Classic is a bicycling and outdoor sports festival and exposition held each spring since 1991 at the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Laguna Seca Raceway (branded as WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, and previously Mazda Raceway ...

: National Road Championships ::6th

Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...

::7th Road race : 7th Road race, Pan American Road Championships : 9th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini ;2012 : 2nd Nevada City Classic : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Madera Stage Race : 4th Snelling Road Race : 4th Memorial Cesare Del Cancia : 5th Berkeley Bicycle Club Criterium : 7th Overall Merco Classic : 7th Cherry Pie Criterium : 7th Muri Fermani – Forza Marina – Gianmarco Lorenzi : 7th San Rafael Twilight Criterium ;2013 : 1st Wente Vineyards Road Race : 1st Pescadero Coastal Classic : 1st Mount Diablo Hill Climb : 2nd Overall

: 2nd Overall Volta do México Copa Governador : 2nd Mount Hamilton Classic : National Road Championships ::3rd Road race ::4th

: 4th Berkeley Hills Road Race : 5th Overall San Dimas Stage Race : 6th San Rafael Twilight Criterium : 7th Road race, Pan American Championships : 7th Overall

Cascade Cycling Classic The Cascade Cycling Classic was the longest running elite road bicycle racing stage race in the United States (1980–2019), with 2018 being the only year the race was not held. The race took place in the Central Oregon region and was based in ...

;2014 : National Road Championships ::2nd Road raceFirst place would later be disqualified from the race meaning that the National Championship was awarded to Oliveira ::9th

: 2nd Overall Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica ::1st Stage 1 : 2nd Overall

Tour of the Gila The Tour of the Gila is a cycling stage race for both men and women located in New Mexico, United States. It is sponsored by the component maker SRAM. The "Gila" began in 1987. Beginning in 2012, the men's Gila has been added to the UCI Americ ...

: 2nd Grand Prix de Oriente : 2nd

Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau is an elite women's professional road race held in Canada and is currently rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 1.1 race.Pan American Road Championships : 4th Overall

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::1st Stage 3 : 5th Overall San Dimas Stage Race : 5th Overall

Redlands Bicycle Classic The Redlands Bicycle Classic is a cycling stage race located in Redlands, California, United States that has been held since 1985. It consists of three road races, an individual time trial and a criterium A criterium, or crit, is a bike race ...

: 5th Philadelphia Cycling Classic : 7th

Grand Prix GSB The Grand Prix GSB (Grand Saint Bernard) is an elite women's professional one-day road bicycle race held in El Salvador. Past winners References {{reflist Cycle races in El Salvador Women's road bicycle races ...

;2015 : Military World Games ::1st Gold medal blank

Team road race ::7th Road race : 2nd Overall Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica ::1st Stage 3 ( ITT) : National Road Championships ::3rd Road race ::3rd

: 6th Overall

Tour of California The Tour of California (officially sponsored as the Amgen Tour of California) was an annual professional road cycling stage race on the UCI World Tour and USA Cycling Professional Tour that ran from 2006 to 2019. It was the only event on the ...

: 7th Overall Tour Femenino de San Luis : 7th Overall

::1st

Mountains classification : 7th Overall

: 8th Overall San Dimas Stage Race : 10th Overall

Joe Martin Stage Race Joe Martin Stage Race is a road cycling stage race held annually in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is part of the UCI America Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the ...

: 10th Overall

;2016 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall classification

::1st

Mountains classification ::1st Stage 4 : 1st Jersey green

Mountains classification

Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska (Tour de Feminin – Krásná Lípa) is a women's staged cycle race which takes place in the Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Euro ...

: 2nd Overall Tour de Pologne Féminin ::1st Stage 2 ( ITT) : 2nd Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Road race, Pan American Road Championships : 3rd Overall Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica ::1st Stage 1 ( ITT) : 7th Road race,

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: 9th Overall 4. NEA ;2017 : 7th Overall Colorado Classic : 10th Overall

: 10th

La Flèche Wallonne Féminine La Flèche Wallonne Féminine is a professional women's bicycle road race held each year in Wallonia, Belgium, in April. It is part of the UCI Women's World Tour, cycling's season-long competition of top-tier races, in which it is the third-old ...

;2018 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotBrasil

Road race ::3rd

: 2nd Overall Vuelta Femenina a Guatemala : 6th Winston-Salem Cycling Classic ;2019 : National Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::2nd

: 3rd La Picto–Charentaise : 6th Overall Colorado Classic : 8th

GP de Plouay – Bretagne The Grand Prix de Plouay – Lorient Agglomération is an elite professional women's road bicycle race held in Plouay, France. It is organized annually since 2002, on the day of the men's race and on the same circuit. The race consists of fou ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oliveira, Flavia 1981 births Living people Brazilian female cyclists Brazilian road racing cyclists Brazilian sportspeople in doping cases Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Doping cases in cycling Olympic cyclists of Brazil