Cíntia "Tuiú" Silva dos Santos (born 31 January 1975 in

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) is a Brazilian former

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player. In over a decade with the

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, she competed in three Olympics -

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on b ...

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

, and

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

- winning two medals, and three

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, winning it all in 1994.

WNBA career statistics

Regular season

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2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

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2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and ...

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Playoffs

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References

1975 births Living people People from Mauá Brazilian expatriate basketball people in the United States Brazilian women's basketball players Olympic basketball players for Brazil Basketball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 1999 Pan American Games Basketball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Brazil Olympic bronze medalists for Brazil Olympic medalists in basketball Pan American Games competitors for Brazil Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Basketball players from São Paulo (state) {{Brazil-basketball-bio-stub