Flávia Oliveira

Flávia Oliveira
	Oliveira at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Flávia Maria de Oliveira Paparella
Born	27 October 1981 (age 43); Brazil
Height	157 cm (5 ft 2 in)
Weight	43 kg (95 lb)
Team information
Current team	Força Aérea Brasileira
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Amateur teams
2007	Team Tibco
2008	Vanderkitten Racing
2008	Fenixs-Kutoa
2008	Metromint Cycling (Guest rider)
2008	Touchstone Climbing (Guest rider)
2011	Team PCW
2013	Swaboladies.nl
2014	DNA Cycling p/b K4Racing
2014	FCS Cycling Team (Guest rider)
2014	Louis Garneau Factory Team (Guest rider)
2014	Team Newton (Guest rider)
2015	Visit Dallas Cycling (Guest rider)
2016	Aprire Bicycles–HSS Hire (Guest rider)
2017–2019	Fearless Femme (Guest rider)
2020	ATX–Wolfpack p/b Jakroo
Professional teams
2009	SC Michela Fanini Record Rox
2010	Gauss Rdz Ormu
2011	Vaiano Solaristech
2012	Forno d'Asolo – Colavita
2013	GSD Gestion-Kallisto
2014	Firefighters Upsala CK
2014	Servetto Footon
2015	Alé–Cipollini
2015	Optum–KBS (Guest rider)
2016	Lensworld–Zannata
2016	BTC City Ljubljana (Guest rider)
2016–2017	Lares–Waowdeals
2018	Health Mate–Cyclelive Team
2019	Swapit–Agolíco
2019	Memorial–Santos
Medal record
Military World Games

Flávia Maria de Oliveira Paparella (born 27 October 1981) is a Brazilian racing cyclist. She competed in the 2013 UCI Women's World Championship Road Race in Florence,^[2] as well as the 2014 UCI Women's Road World Championships in Ponferrada. She competed at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro^[3] 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 in 2015, the Brazilian National Road Race Championships,^[4] and she was the winner of the general and mountain classifications at the 2016 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche.^[5]

During a coaching session early in Oliveira's career, she recorded one of the highest V̇O₂ max scores ever across all athletics for females.^[6]

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.^[7] 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. ^[8] Oliveira later sued the supplement manufacturer.^[9] 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.^[10] 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.^[11] 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.^[12] Oliveira returned to racing shortly after, recording her best ever finish in a World Cup Event at GP Plouay, where she finished 8th.^[13]

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.^[14] Additionally, WADA made the determination that vilanterol is not performance enhancing and removed it from the 2021 prohibited list when used as Oliveira did.^[15]

2020 Olympic Bid

While preparing for the 2020 Summer Olympics, Oliveira was struck by a car and suffered a broken pelvis.^[16] After rehabilitation, Oliveira collected enough Olympic qualification points to provisionally qualify her for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.^[17] However, three weeks before the 2019 Road World Championships,^[18] Oliveira suffered a crash in the GP Fourmies in France that effectively ended her season.^[19]