Donavan Brazier comes from behind, crushes last lap (24.89) and sets American record - 1:44.20!!

That final 300 was the most breathtaking I have seen in an 800. Poor Hoppel got dropped like a hobbyjogger and still probably closed in 25.x

Wow... that's how to take it home!

That’s how to do it ?

That is REALLY impressive!

Which spikes was he wearing? The ones that will be banned after April 30?

That's insane!

The fact that he split so fast on the last 200 goes to show that he can actually go faster than 1:44.22!

Also--great runs by Harris and Hoppel, the latter of which seems to be adapting well to the professional world

hatetosay wrote:

Which spikes was he wearing? The ones that will be banned after April 30?

Did he pass the drug test?

NORAPCAP wrote:

That's insane!

The fact that he split so fast on the last 200 goes to show that he can actually go faster than 1:44.22!

Also--great runs by Harris and Hoppel, the latter of which seems to be adapting well to the professional world

1:40.xx come outdoors.

We already knew he could go faster than 1:44.22. He's done it many times before.

Brazier is running very dominantly right now. His speed and his stride remind me of 2011/2012 rudisha...I hope we will see a sub 1:42 from him this year

He is running with the same type of swagger and is dominating in a similar fashion, but I don’t think his stride looks like Rudishas at all. Interestingly I was specifically thinking that he looks oddly top heavy with different hip extension than usual - that may very well be camera angle and running on a 200m track as he is quite tall.

hatetosay wrote:

Which spikes was he wearing? The ones that will be banned after April 30?

Huh? Educate yourself before you make silly comments. This is why we can’t have nice things around here.

U.S. runners feel the pressure to perform well from January through April. A need to make money for their handlers. I already knew Brazier was a good 800m runner. Brazier knows he's a good 800m runner. Peaking January through April during an Olympic year is a high risk. Does anyone remember Michael Norman peaking April, 2019? Posters then here on Letsrun were patting Norman's coach on the back, April, 2019. All the best runners 800m runners are not peaking like this at this time. What is the upside being an indoor hero?

True. Better to be slow now since slow now is a guarantee of fast later on! You should be a coach.

hatetosay wrote:

Which spikes was he wearing? The ones that will be banned after April 30?

Regular ol Victory Elite that everybody has been wearing for last few years.

And that new one isn’t banned either.

Enough with the shoes....

retroactive extrapolation wrote:

True. Better to be slow now since slow now is a guarantee of fast later on! You should be a coach.

He needs to back off to make sure he has a nice long masters career.

600yd/600m man wrote:

U.S. runners feel the pressure to perform well from January through April. A need to make money for their handlers. I already knew Brazier was a good 800m runner. Brazier knows he's a good 800m runner. Peaking January through April during an Olympic year is a high risk. Does anyone remember Michael Norman peaking April, 2019? Posters then here on Letsrun were patting Norman's coach on the back, April, 2019. All the best runners 800m runners are not peaking like this at this time. What is the upside being an indoor hero?

Where are you getting "through April"? He has USA's next week then he's shutting his indoor season down. That's mid Feb so say he resumes training early March and doesn't have to peak til the 1st week in August since he could probably moderately train through the trials. Some runners just respond to two peaks a year and that's Julian's philosophy.

Fast indoors, faster outdoors. Go Donovan!

600yd/600m man wrote:

U.S. runners feel the pressure to perform well from January through April. A need to make money for their handlers. I already knew Brazier was a good 800m runner. Brazier knows he's a good 800m runner. Peaking January through April during an Olympic year is a high risk. Does anyone remember Michael Norman peaking April, 2019? Posters then here on Letsrun were patting Norman's coach on the back, April, 2019. All the best runners 800m runners are not peaking like this at this time. What is the upside being an indoor hero?

Yeah he really struggled at worlds last year after being an indoor hero too. Can’t believe he hasn’t learned his lesson