Go away, nobody cares about you jamin. All you do is cry and bring up terrible takes because you’re a “hater- fan” of the sport, except when it comes to good looking women. You’ve never experienced any type of real running success and have no idea of common sense when it comes to controversial running takes.
The 1500m is most like other sports, in that anyone can win it given how the race is run. Running it fast from the gun takes away a little from that suspense but not by much. You still need someone else to take it out fast. There is danger with every tactic.
I don’t think anyone can win it. From 1991 to 2004, Morceli and El Guerrouj won 2 Olympic and 7 World Championship Golds between them. The two losses in that stretch was Cacho in 1992 and Ngeny in 2000. Pretty fast guys, themselves.
Upsets with average 1500m runners are rare. Peter Rono in 1988 and Centro in 2016 were the only 2 averagish runners that won in the last 60 or so years.
Go away, nobody cares about you jamin. All you do is cry and bring up terrible takes because you’re a “hater- fan” of the sport, except when it comes to good looking women. You’ve never experienced any type of real running success and have no idea of common sense when it comes to controversial running takes.
That’s way too much, dude.
Jamin on another thread just posted and called cole hocker “one-hit” wonder, even though Cole hocker is coming back from injury and just made the team at a younger age. This dude has the worst takes, like I said, and I’m seriously wondering if he has some type of deficit. Jamin, if you see this, I don’t like you.
Is this guy asleep? There's no glamour or hype in being irrelevant in the 1500. He had great result in the Olympics 7 years ago and he has not done anything on the world stage since. No one gives a damn if you're a non factor as a 1500 guy, nobody is impressed that you're out here floundering. He just doesn't want to embarrass himself in the 5000. Just go out and start coaching or whatever you're gonna do when you eventually are forced to hang it up which is very soon. Get to it you have a lot of decades that you have to produce income for.
1500 is more enjoyed by the general public than the 5 or 10 for one reason only - it’s shorter and more viewer friendly. But at the end of the day, nobody actually cares unless there’s a superstar, so the difference is negligible anyway.
The 100 is clearly the glamour event of the sport and the 1500 is next. This is generally true for both fans and athletes.
People view the 5000 and 10000 as essentially the same but one is just longer.
Maybe some fans and definitely athletes, but to the general public it's different. The 100m and marathon are the glory events, but I don't think the 1500m and 5k are much different. I'd argue the 5k is more popular. The 1500m is run more often than the mile and most in the general public don't hear "1500m" and immediately know/think "oh, that's just under a mile". Because it's not exactly a mile, it looses prestige. A 5k is something everyone can relate to just like the marathon. A 100m isn't special, but most people know that's the shortest event and determines "the fastest in the world". The 1500m is a random event where you start 3/4 back from the finish.
Centro only has a few years left of even being remotely competitive regaurdless of event and knows he's nowhere close to making the 5k team. I'm not sure he's even willing to do consistent, proper 5k training or could handle it. That's why he downing the 5k, he literally couldn't hang if he tried.
Few athletes choose to pursue hurdles as an event, but the 110M hurdles are a fan favorite, more people have heard of Lolo Jones than Galen Rupp, and there are more runners trying to be top 5Kers than top hurdlers.
I agree that many 1500M guys move up to the 5000M because it's easier (to win and arguably easier in terms of pain), but that's because 1500M guys tend to have better natural distance running ability than pure 5Kers.
I think what Centro is really saying is "I don't really like running for the sake of running."
With how long he's been at it, it's understandable. He's just collecting a paycheck at this point. And I don't mean to sound cynical, it's just a reality of being a professional athlete of any sort that is in the tail end of their career; gotta capitalize while you still can.
I think what Centro is really saying is "I don't really like running for the sake of running."
With how long he's been at it, it's understandable. He's just collecting a paycheck at this point. And I don't mean to sound cynical, it's just a reality of being a professional athlete of any sort that is in the tail end of their career; gotta capitalize while you still can.
Yea and I think he’s realistic and knows he’s not likely to compete at a high level in the 5k, so what’s the point? 1 in a million to make it this long at that level in the sport so I think he’s good callin it now.
Centro's comment makes sense in the context of the current version of Centro.
I believe he could have had great success if he moved to the 5000m sometime after 2016 at the same time, why would you do that in the 4 (5 in his case) year period where you can capitalize on being the defending Olympic champion? It didn't matter that he was getting beaten or running slower times than other people because he was the current champion.
Now that he would be uncompetitive in the USA at the 5000m, what would be the point of moving up? He's not making a US team a 5000m in 2024.
In 2021, if he'd been aiming at that for the 2-3 years before it and stayed uninjured, perhaps he'd have been very good. He did run 13:00 in his only real serious attempt, and perhaps people forget that as a high schooler his 3200m/2 mile time was more impressive than his mile time. I always thought Centro was a longer distance talent who might have been much better at the longer stuff but ended up in the 1500m because the US and the world were relatively weak at it and he ended up having great success, so why move up, especially when the 1500m is a more marquis event on the circuit.
I don't agree with him that no 1500m guy would want to move up. I think people would move up if they were going to be more competitive and/or compete for medals. Which is what I think Cooper Teare should do before it is too late.
Regardless of whether the 1500m is the glamour event or not (I think it is more highly regarded on the European circuit), it cannot be ignored that the most well known distance runner in US history is a 5000m guy who never medaled in the Olympics. Regular people in my office know all about Steve Prefontaine but have never heard of Matt Centrowitz, Jim Ryun, Lionel Manzano, or any of our medalists at 1500m.