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 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 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 Jersey yellow.svg 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 Gold medal blank.svg 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 Jersey green.svg 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 Jersey yellow.svg Overall classification Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Mountains classification
 * 1st Stage 4
 * 1st Jersey green.svg 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 Bronze medal blank.svg 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 MaillotBrasil.PNG 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