Former Florida State track star and World Championship silver medalist Marvin Bracy-Williams has been suspended for 12 years after committing multiple whereabout failures, according to a ruling announced this week.
Bracy-Williams, who competed with the FSU football team before pursuing a professional track career, was sanctioned after a third anti-doping rule violation related to missed drug tests and a failure to provide accurate testing information.
“The period of ineligibility for first whereabouts failure rule violations ranges from one to two years, depending on the athlete’s degree of fault. Because this was the American sprinter’s third violation, he was subject to an increased sanction between eight years and a lifetime period of ineligibility.”
Former Seminole Receives Lengthy Suspension
One of the fastest recruits in the country coming out of Orlando Boone High School, Bracy-Williams signed with Florida State in 2012 as a dual-sport athlete. After spending one season with the football team, he chose to focus on track and field full-time…