Donavan Brazier

Reigning 800-meter run world champion Donavan Brazier was the Gold Medal favorite for this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. It turned out that the Grand Rapids native will not be making the trip to Japan after all. Brazier failed to make the cut in Monday night’s Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore.

Donavan Brazier carried no strategy to the Hayward Field track other than to win, other than to continue an inevitable march to the pinnacle of his sport. He had beaten the best 800-meter runners in the world from the front of the pack, and he had won from the back. He reached the line first like water found its level. He did not need a race plan at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Ore. He just needed to be Donavan Brazier, the invulnerable world champion.

World 800m champion Donavan Brazier failed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics after finishing last at the make-or-break US trials. The US record holder, who won gold in Doha in 2019, ran out of energy in the final 200m and finished more than four seconds behind winner Clayton Murphy. Olympic...

EUGENE, Ore. -- The rooms in Tokyo practically had their names on them. Instead, others will be taking the spots that seemed all but reserved for two American track champions, Jenny Simpson and Donavan Brazier. The cold realities of the U.S. Olympic qualifying reared their ugly head on a scorcher...

Down the final stretch of the men’s 800-meter final Monday night at the U.S. Olympic trials, the 2019 world champion seemingly disappeared. Nearing the final turn at Hayward Field, Donavan Brazier was still near the front. A few strides ahead of him was USC’s Isaiah Jewett, who had surged ahead of the group in the second lap.

It was in his own words 'a (crappy) race', as Donavan Brazier failed in his quest to make the Tokyo Olympics in the men's 800 meter race. USC's Isaiah Jewett pushed the pace, causing Brazier to try and play catch up and ultimately he ran out of gas down the stretch, as he faded to finish eighth in the 800 meter final at the US Track and Field Olympic Trials Monday night in Eugene, OR.

The biggest upset of the U.S. Olympic Trials so far happened in the men’s 800m race earlier this evening, when world champion Donavan Brazier suffered a breakdown in the final, finishing eighth (and last) in 1:47.88. At the bell, Brazier was in second position behind the eventual second-place finisher, recently-crowned NCAA champion Isaiah Jewett, who set a blistering pace almost from the gun and finished in a new PB of 1:43.85 behind 2016 bronze medallist Clayton Murphy in first place (who finished in a world-leading 1:43.17) and Bryce Hoppel in second, in a season’s best 1:44.14.

Chris Nilsen wins the pole vault, in which three Americans clear 19 feet, 2¼ inches for the first time in the same meet. Elle Purrier St. Pierre's front running produces a 1,500 meet record.

Donavan Brazier, reigning world champion at 800m, finished last on Monday in the event's final at the U.S. Trials in Eugene, Oregon, missing his second straight Olympic team. The American record-holder was in second place through 400m but fell apart in the final 200m, finishing eighth in 1:47.88. He was 19th overall at the 2016 Trials.