Brazilian volleyball player Tandara Caixeta has been suspended from Tokyo 2020 Olympics for violating anti-doping rules, said the Brazilian Olympic Committee.
Tandara Caixeta, 32, gave an out-of-competition doping test on July 7, which was positive. The Brazilian has been suspended from the Tokyo Olympics and will soon return to her homeland.
The Brazilian national team will play against the Republic of Korea later today in the semifinals of the Tokyo 2020 Games.
Tandara Caixeta is a Brazilian professional volleyball player. She plays for the Brazil women’s national volleyball team and for Sesc-Rio in the Brazilian Superliga. She competed for Brazil in the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal. She is 1.84 m tall.
In 2011, Tandara Caixeta was selected for the Brazil team for the first time and won gold in the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, before becoming an Olympic champion in London in 2012. She has twice been the top scorer in the Brazilian Women’s Superliga. Tandara Caixeta is known for breaking records in the Brazilian Superliga. In the 2013/2014 season, she broke the record of most points in a match, she scored 37 points. In the 2017/2018 season, she broke her own record, scoring 39 points, as well scoring 626 points in the season, as this also being the highest mark in the country. Again in the 2019/2020 season, she broke her record, scoring unbelievable 40 points in 4 sets, as this being the highest mark in the history of volleyball in the Brazilian courts.
Tandara Caixeta won the 2017 South American Championship Most Valuable Player award. She later won the 2017 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup Best Opposite Spiker award.
