Why was the winning 1500 time in Rio a 3:50?

That's frustrating but part of the game. Happens all too often. Track and road

It's still pretty embarrassing to run a time that slow at the Olympics. It's almost disrespectful in a way. I have no idea how that could have happened. It's low effort and lame. Kudos to Centro for winning, but he was nowhere near Hocker's level.

His last lap was 50.x!

HE GOT IT!!!!! 😂😂😂

Awesome race, awesome kick! Way 2 go, Centro!

I never thought I would ever see an American 1500 🥇. And now we have 2, a mile WR and a 3:43. Incredible.

What else will we see in future USA track??? Good luck!

I think the race makes sense.

If you watch with an eye on Centro’s tactics the whole way, he runs the full race with the goal of staying in the front at the slowest pace necessary. Several people try to pass him, but he accelerates to keep them out of lane one. If anyone had truly wanted to pass him, they would have had to make the race genuinely fast, which no one wanted to do.

That’s why it’s seen as a tactical masterpiece. Centro was in control for the entire 1500m.

Have you considered the possibility that your question was stupid and didn't deserve a response?

The Kenyans are usually the guys who keep the pace honest. But watch around 1:50 in the race...

Asbel Kiprop surges from last to the front and it looks like Ronald Kwemoi, his teammate, was trying to go with him. But Kwemoi trips and goes down pretty hard. Kiprop doesn't notice that Kwemoi went down. Kwemoi recovers from his fall and sprints to catch back up to the pack. But to me, it is clear that Kwemoi got the wind knocked out of him and may have been slightly injured by the fall.

Again, Kiprop doesn't notice that his teammate went down. I believe that Kwemoi was supposed to take the lead. When Kwemoi doesn't take the lead, Kiprop slows down and tucks in behind the leaders in the inside lane. Kiprop will remain severely boxed in for the rest of the race which can be frustrating and exhausting. To me, Kiprop clearly thought that Kwemoi would take the lead at any second and make the pace honest. But Kwemoi is obviously compromised and unable to fulfill his duty.

Kiprop has to slow down just before the last lap and fall all the way to the back of the back, move to the outside after getting bumped a couple times, and then make a big move to catch back up to Centro. It was the only way to get out of his box.

On the final lap, Centro, Willis, and Makhloufi are fresh. But Kiprop is tired from being boxed in and having to sprint twice already to get himself in a decent position. Kwemoi tried to kick, but ends up buried in last place by 5 seconds.

Cliffs: The Kenyans are usually the ones to make the pace honest. Kwemoi's fall ruined their plan. It still would have been a slowish race, but definitely not 3:50.

When I was growing up in the 1980s, I was raised by my biological mother and my running coach who was in his upper 70s. Those were my only living relatives. I had no other biological family or others raising me. During that time period, I was taught that the only stupid question is the one that is NOT asked. I am sorry that you had such bad parents.

Again, the reason you did not provide an answer to the technical/environmental reasons for why this race was the slowest in history is because YOU, personally, did NOT know the answer. And because YOU personally do not run or compete anymore.

Do you think your running coach and your mom ever fooled around together?

Every night I reckon he pounded her whilst wee 430 dreamed of placing top 3 in his high school champs.

Maybe thats what he's so fixated on people's childhoods - what do YOU think?

Massengill, when you need to feel fresh.

Remember that 100m where everyone walked to 90m then darted? Yeah, me neither.

That would almost give Matt London, the 10 meter champion, a chance.