Donavan Brazier Is Just Getting Started

Have we ever seen someone like Donavan Brazier?

The 23 year old 800m phenom hasn’t lost a race since July 9th 2019 and hasn’t lost an 800m race since May 3rd 2019’s Doha meeting in which he finished 3rd… that’s 16 straight wins across all meets.

Remember when Alan Webb won a Diamond League 1500? or when Nick Symmonds became a 2x Diamond League event winner in 2013? We collectively lost our minds, I can still replay the Alan Webb victory in my head to this day.

However, when Donavan Brazier wins the first 2 Diamond League 800m events held in 2020 it almost feels expected of him. Winning both of these races in 1:43.xx and looking relatively calm all things considered. Maybe some of that comes from the relative low pressure that comes from the 2020 European circuit but Brazier is the defending World Champion, so maybe that itself is reason enough to race without internal pressure.

Watch this past weekend’s race, at the final 600m Brazier was in 4th behind Vazquez, Rotich, and Kramer. The race can then be summarized in 3 pictures.

Brazier swings wide on the turn and just powers past the entire field. It’s this…