{"id":299167,"date":"2026-06-07T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299167\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T13:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:48:12","slug":"former-florida-state-star-hit-with-12-year-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299167\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Florida State Star Hit With 12-Year Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"64\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sports\/us-sprinter-bracy-williams-suspended-12-years-whereabouts-failures-2026-06-05\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruling<\/a> announced this week.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"67\">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. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6a\">&#8220;The period of ineligibility for first whereabouts failure rule \u200bviolations ranges from one to two years, depending on the athlete\u2019s degree of fault. Because this was the American sprinter&#8217;s third violation, he was \u200bsubject to an increased sanction between eight years and \u200ba lifetime period of ineligibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former Seminole Receives Lengthy Suspension<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/01ktg1f7thp8b28b2ed4.jpg\" alt=\"Bracy-Williams\" title=\"Bracy-Williams\" width=\"360\" height=\"203\" class=\"undefined w-full w-full blur-[5px]\" q:id=\"6n\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bracy-Williams &#8211; Instagram.com<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6r\">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. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6u\">He represented the United States at the 2016 Olympics and captured a silver medal in the 100 meters at the 2022 World Championships, establishing himself as one of the world&#8217;s top sprinters. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6x\">Athletes who are part of a registered testing pool are required to provide accurate information about their location and availability for out-of-competition drug testing. Repeated missed tests or failures to provide accurate whereabouts information can lead to anti-doping sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Suspension Marks Another Setback for Bracy-Williams<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/01ktg1thqmxnh9rgbzp8.jpg\" alt=\"Marvin Bracy-Williams\" title=\"Marvin Bracy-Williams\" width=\"360\" height=\"203\" class=\"undefined w-full w-full blur-[5px]\" q:id=\"7a\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Marvin Bracy-Williams &#8211; Instagram.com<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7e\">The latest sanction comes after Bracy-Williams accepted a 45-month suspension in 2025 for anti-doping violations. The new penalty extends his absence from competition well into the future.  <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7h\">Bracy-Williams quickly emerged as one of the top sprinters in the United States, earning a spot on Team USA for the 2016 Summer Olympics.\u00a0The former Seminole reached the peak of his career in 2022 when he won a silver medal in the 100-meter dash at the World Athletics Championships, cementing his status among the world&#8217;s elite sprinters.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-12\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7k\">The former four-star recruit and Under Armor All-American is facing a lengthy absence from competition, adding another setback to a career that once established him as one of the world&#8217;s top sprinters.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-15\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7t\">Sign up for our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/fsu\/newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free newsletter<\/a>\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/fsu\/florida-state-seminoles-college-basketball\/facebook.com\/NoleGameday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nolegameday?s=21&amp;t=nyCeWGVWMsSpULqWCupqGA\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nolegameday\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0for the latest news.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow si.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=si.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\">Follow<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Florida State track star and World Championship silver medalist Marvin Bracy-Williams has been suspended for 12 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-299167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}