Brazier suffers shock loss
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World champion Donavan Brazier’s Olympic dreams were shattered on Monday as the overwhelming favorite in the men’s 800 meters suffered a shock defeat in make-or-break US trials that pushed the sport’s top athletes to the brink. The 24-year-old American record holder seemed all but assured of a spot on Team USA heading into Eugene, Oregon, this week but ran out of gas with 200 meters to go, finishing dead last with a time of 1 minute, 47.88 seconds as he was forced to relive the disappointment of the 2016 trials, where he also fell short. “I may have made a move a little too early. I paid the price the last 200,” Brazier said, adding he was “obviously not the best prepared.” Clayton Murphy, 26, who picked up bronze at the Rio 2016 Olympics, won in a blistering, world-leading 1:43.17. Isaiah Jewett, 24, finished second with a personal best 1:43.85.
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