A Florida man was charged on Tuesday with supplying banned performance-enhancing substances to an athlete in a case involving the nearly four-year ban given to American sprinter Marvin Bracy-Williams last year.
The US Attorney’s Office in Orlando, FLA, announced the indictment of Paul Askew of Jacksonville, FLA, for violating the law. The specific federal law came into effect in 2020 and is named the Rodchenkov Act. This law moved performance-enhancing drug usage and distribution into criminal law. Other countries have also criminalized PEDs, including Kenya, which is experiencing an epidemic of doping.
2022 World 100m Silver medalist Marvin Bracy-Williams 🇺🇸 has been handed a 45 month ban for doping (3 years, 9 months).
— Global Athletics Hub (@glblathletichub) November 10, 2025
He tested positive for an anabolic agent after indications by a whistleblower and committed whereabouts failures.
He has DQ results from June 2023. pic.twitter.com/bqlQvYyq1r
Bracy-Williams ran the 100 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and earned a silver medal at the 2022 Eugene World Athletics Championships. Bracy-Williams mysteriously disappeared from sprinting in 2023 before receiving his ban in November 2025 after a case brought to the USADA’s attention by a whistleblower.
That led to the sprinter testing positive for a banned substance. The case continued with Bracy-Williams’ attempt to hinder the investigation and ended with him providing substantial assistance to the Athletics Integrity Unit and USADA, who uncovered other cases, USADA said at that time.
More to come from this.
