‘You can’t just remove the cloud’: US sprinting’s reckoning before LA 2028

Rob Draper Fri, 23 January 2026 at 10:15 am UTC·7 min read Marvin Bracy-Williams dreamed of ranking in the pantheon of elite male US sprinters alongside Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson and Maurice Greene. He’s quick – 9.85sec for 100m – but his problem was he could only ever finish second: silver at the world indoors in 2014, silver at the world championships in 2022. When he didn’t even make the USA team for the 2023 world championships he realized that, at 29, he was losing the most important contest of all, the race against time.Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement According to Monzavous “Rae” Edwards, a former elite sprinter and now gym owner in Dallas, Bracy-Williams’ frustrations...