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

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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

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in 2015, the

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, 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

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: 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 UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI Euro ...

: 9th Overall

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;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 in Monterey, California. The four-day event is considered the world's largest cycling festival, ...

: National Road Championships ::6th

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::7th Road race : 7th Road race,

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: 9th Overall

Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini The Giro Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini is annual elite List of women's road bicycle races, women's road bicycle racing race stage, stage race held in Italy since 1995. During the 2013 race, 63 of the 112 riders refused to co ...

;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 The San Dimas Stage Race is a stage race, stage cycling race held annually in the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California. It was called the Pomona Valley Stage Race until 2004. Winners Men Women References

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: 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 was held again in 2019, but then canceled due to Covid in 20 ...

;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

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::1st Stage 1 : 2nd Overall

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: 2nd Grand Prix de Oriente : 2nd

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: 4th Overall

Vuelta Ciclista Femenina a El Salvador The Vuelta Ciclista a El Salvador (''English'': Tour of El Salvador) is a multi-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually in late April and early May in El Salvador. The Vuelta a El Salvador carries a UCI rating of 2.2 and is part of the ...

::1st Stage 3 : 5th Overall

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: 5th Overall

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: 5th Philadelphia Cycling Classic : 7th

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;2015 :

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::1st

Team road race ::7th Road race : 2nd Overall

::1st Stage 3 (

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) : National Road Championships ::3rd Road race ::3rd

: 6th Overall

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

::1st

Mountains classification : 7th Overall

: 8th Overall

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: 10th Overall

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: 10th Overall

;2016 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall classification

::1st

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

Mountains classification

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: 2nd Overall

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::1st Stage 2 (

) : 2nd Overall

: 3rd

Road race,

: 3rd Overall

::1st Stage 1 (

) : 7th Road race,

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: 9th Overall

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;2017 : 7th Overall Colorado Classic : 10th Overall

: 10th

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;2018 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotBrasil

Road race ::3rd

: 2nd Overall

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: 6th

Winston-Salem Cycling Classic The Winston-Salem Cycling Classic is a one-day race held annually since 2013 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the United States. In 2019, it was rated as a 1.2 race by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), and was part of the UCI America T ...

;2019 : National Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::2nd

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

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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 for Brazil Military World Games gold medalists for Brazil Military World Games medalists in cycling 21st-century Brazilian sportswomen