OlympicTalk · Jun 22, 2021
Donavan Brazier, America’s first 800m World champ, misses Olympic team
The biggest story on Day 4 at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials was not which athletes won their competitions, but rather which one lost.
Donavan Brazier, the nation’s first 800m World champion of either gender, failed to make the Olympic team and shocked the track and field community.
NBC commentator and four-time Olympic medalist Ato Boldon called it “the biggest upset of the Trials so far.”
Sanya Richards-Ross, a five-time medalist, added, “I’m in shock, a loss for words; if I was going to put money on anyone in this Trials, it would have been Donavan Brazier.”
Brazier was perhaps as close to a sure thing as there is in sports.