# Flávia Oliveira

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, as well as the 2014 UCI Women's Road World Championships in Ponferrada. She competed at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 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, and she was the winner of the general and mountain classifications at the 2016 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche.
During a coaching session early in Oliveira's career, she recorded one of the highest V̇O$_2$ 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 2020 Summer Olympics, 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 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
    9th Overall La Route de France

### 2011

    2nd Mike's Bikes Cat's Hill Classic
    3rd Overall Sea Otter Classic
    National Road Championships
       6th Time trial
       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 Sea Otter Classic
    2nd Overall Volta do México Copa Governador
    2nd Mount Hamilton Classic
    National Road Championships
       3rd Road race
       4th Time trial
    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

### 2014

    National Road Championships
       2nd Road race
       9th Time trial
    2nd Overall Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica
       1st Stage 1
    2nd Overall Tour of the Gila
    2nd Grand Prix de Oriente
    2nd Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau
    4th Road race, Pan American Road Championships
    4th Overall Vuelta Ciclista Femenina a El Salvador
       1st Stage 3
    5th Overall San Dimas Stage Race
    5th Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
    5th Philadelphia Cycling Classic
    7th Grand Prix GSB

### 2015

    Military World Games
       1st 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 Time trial
    6th Overall Tour of California
    7th Overall Tour Femenino de San Luis
    7th Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
       1st Mountains classification
    7th Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
    8th Overall San Dimas Stage Race
    10th Overall Joe Martin Stage Race
    10th Overall Tour of the Gila

### 2016

    1st Overall classification Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Stage 4
    1st Mountains classification Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska
    2nd Overall Tour de Pologne Féminin
       1st Stage 2 (ITT)
    2nd Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini
    3rd Road race, Pan American Road Championships
    3rd Overall Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica
       1st Stage 1 (ITT)
    7th Road race, Olympic Games
    9th Overall 4. NEA

### 2017

    7th Overall Colorado Classic
    10th Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
    10th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine

### 2018

    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       3rd Time trial
    2nd Overall Vuelta Femenina a Guatemala
    6th Winston-Salem Cycling Classic

### 2019

    National Road Championships
       2nd Road race
       2nd Time trial
    3rd La Picto–Charentaise
    6th Overall Colorado Classic
    8th GP de Plouay – Bretagne