Donavan Brazier

None of the United States’ four entrants in the men’s 800 meters made it out of their respective heats on Wednesday at the World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Reigning world champion Donavan Brazier faded badly in the final half-lap of his 800 heat and...

Olympic heartbreak is all over the tube again, making best-of-seven despair and NFL overtime outrage look very small. There’s only one thing that trumps it: Olympic Trials heartbreak and not even making it to that grand stage. Donavan Brazier has run two laps of the track faster than any...

NEW YORK, NY – Two highly featured men’s races will take place at the 114th Millrose Games on Saturday, January 29th at The Armory New Balance Track & Field Center: The Mike Frankfurt Invitational Men’s 800m and the Invitational Men’s 400m. The Men’s 800m is headlined...

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.

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...

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...

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.

Donavan Brazier finished the 800 more than four seconds behind the winner, Clayton Murphy, who won bronze at the 2016 Rio Games.

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.

The U.S. Olympic track and field trials continued with Day 4 at Hayward Field in Eugene on Monday, when six of the seven events on the schedule were finals with Olympic berths on the line. The biggest shocker of Day 4 came in the men’s 800 final, with world champion...