So many soyboy clowns on this thread.
Centrowitz has four global championship and olympic medals. Gold in the Olympics, Silver at Worlds, Bronze at Worlds, and another Gold at Worlds Indoors. Not to mention his Gold from Pan Am Junior Champs.
He's consistently beat many people outright faster than him on paper. Sub 3:30 has been done many times in history, 117 to be exact.
Many of those athletes have nowhere near Centro's medal haul. What do you think they'd rather have? Some quick time in some Diamond League meet or no-name location with perfect conditions and rabbiting? Or, would they like to win that elusive global championship medal? The kind of medal where you have to not only be fit, but perfectly mete your energy throughout several rounds, have some luck, and show up on the final day, under pressure, and get the job done?
How many Africans have you seen come out of the woodwork to run very fast times but repeatedly bomb or underperform or just run stupidly in global championships?
Ask most elite athletes, and they want the medal. Their times can be broken, but as they say, "nobody can take that medal away from you" (assuming they aren't busted for doping).
As for Centro's times over his career, let's start with his first appearance on the world championship stage.
https://worldathletics.org/records/toplists/middle-long/1500-metres/outdoor/men/senior/2015?regionType=world&page=1&bestResultsOnly=true
Just check out where he ranked each year for the 1500m...
2011: 38th fastest runner (bronze Daegu)
2012: 10th fastest
2013: 27th fastest (silver Moscow)
2014: 11th fastest
2015: 12th fastest (pb of 3:30.40)
In 2016 (the year Centro won gold in Portland indoors AND led wire-to-wire to win gold in Rio): 20th fastest
2017: 13th fastest
2018: 9th fastest
2019: 18th fastest
2020: Covid off-year
2021: 35th fastest
So over 11 seasons, he was never outside the 40th fastest 1500m runner in the world, hauled four medals, and even ranked 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th fastest runner in the world.
And let's not forget all his USA championship 'golds'...
In other words, if you hate on Centro, you're an idiot and probably a soyboy cvck.