Centro orchestrated the race with a plan and the other competitors took the bait. His race plan was executed to perfection. I don't see how that's luck
It's certainly not luck that Centro was the best 400m runner that day, but he was lucky that no one else decided to push the pace. How often does the 3:50 "plan" work?
Exactly lol, there’s no such thing as controlling a race by slowing it down. It’s not one person keeping it tactical in situations like this, it’s the whole fields decision to do so. Going to the front and slowing down 9/10 times earns you an elbow or two and a trip if you’re lucky.
Centro didnt orchestrate anything, he did a good job at staying at the front of the pack which is very important when it’s going to be a 400m race with a 1100m warmup. A gold medal is a gold medal, Centro earned his Olympic title status as he was the best man on the day, but to say Centro played everyone and had this all planned out isn’t true, he didn’t create the situation, he just utilized it the best.
I also think people saying that Nick Symmonds being the only person that didn’t go out too fast in his Olympic final is crazy. Didn’t everyone PR that race? Most of which went on to be their lifetime bests?
Why does Nick think that the “landlord” has to physically show up and he’s the only person with the authority to tell him to leave? The landlord could be some holding company headquartered thousands of miles away. The manager is completely within his rights to tell Nick to eff off.
That was good content. Seems like one call ahead to Planet Fitness or another gym and they would have been happy for the promotion. On Nick's part it was pushing it, right out front no permission. Seems like a little entitlement big YouTuber I can do what I want and if you give any grief I'm going to make you look bad with my edits for a million viewers. The manager was also way overboard, but come on, that job isn't attracting Harvard Business School type chops.
Why does Nick think that the “landlord” has to physically show up and he’s the only person with the authority to tell him to leave? The landlord could be some holding company headquartered thousands of miles away. The manager is completely within his rights to tell Nick to eff off.
The manager was telling him to leave the entire property, not just to leave the space occupied by the Planet Fitness storefront. Only someone with authority over the entire property can make that demand.
How can the manager of Planet Fitness demand that someone not occupy the space in front of the neighboring business?
Face it. The planet fitness manager thought those girls were his property and was jealous Nick was macking on all the fly hunnies in the parking lot. He couldn't lift even 2 plates. Beta af.
Nick did a bench press challenge video for his Youtube channel. The regional manager comes out and starts flipping out at him like a crazy person. It's bizarre and funny at the same time. The cop that came actually watches Nick's Youtube channel and there wasn't any problem.
I checked on google to confirm the location he was at was the Eugene location and it was. Not sure it's a good look for Planet Fitness to have the regional manager at that location to be saying to someone "You need to f*ck off" publicly while on the clock and representing the company. Feel pity for anyone that works under that guy. People have already left google reviews about the incident lol. Found the guys name there but won't post it. But wow this dude was super rude and aggressive.
The manager clearly doesn’t have any people skills. All he had to say to Nick was that he was concerned that if one of his members got injured by the challenge it could make Planet Fitness look bad and/or be held liable I’m sure they could have sorted it out more civilly.
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5th in the Olympics where almost everybody went out too fast - so he’d have done far worse in a normal one - and he acts like he’s an expert on training. Now he’s a complete hobbyjogger
And what have you accomplished in TNF compared to Nick? Yeah, I thought so.
Centro orchestrated the race with a plan and the other competitors took the bait. His race plan was executed to perfection. I don't see how that's luck
The only plan Matt C put in place was to race at the front in a race split slowly the first 700m or 800m.
Reasons why first 700m or 800m were split slowly:
1) Kenya T&F over-trains their 1500m to 10000m the 3 to 6 weeks prior to Olympics. This has been an issue for numerous Olympics. Kenyan men did not have fresh legs, 8/20/2016.
2) Futbol/soccer went longer than expected. Fifteen-hundred meter men were sitting around cooling off too long.
Nick is actually a bit more to blame than people are realizing here. He is bothering clients as they walk into and out of a private business. They ask him to move, and he does, ... at first. But here is the part people are missing, he still walks back to the front entrance, where he agreed to leave, to ask people if they want to participate and escorts the people back to his relocated station. This is what I think the manager is upset about. I don't think the guy is upset about the new location. I think he is upset that Nick went back to the front door when he realized he wasn't getting enough traffic where he moved to.
In my mind Nick is acting no differently than a homeless guy standing outside a gym asking people walking in and out for money. While I don't think a homeless person should be yelled out either, I think it is fair to want them to move.
Nick could have easily done this video at any serious gym and I'm sure the owners would have welcomed him in advance. However, Nick actually chose this location because of planet fitness's clientel. He even starts the video making fun of planet fitness showing funny videos of their clients and their lack of experience exercising. Nick wanted to have some fun, thinking it would be a fun video concept.
Of course the manager was a total jerk, and deserve all the ridicule he is getting here. But I don't think Nick was totally innocent here either, as fun as his videos can be.
Minus the incident, paying someone to do what they're already doing (lift weights at a gym) is shark-jump material. Which does argue for it being staged. Yay, you did a bench press, here's some money? Almost like he's mocking his own enthusiasm.
It would be more interesting if he went to a track and started telling people he'd give them a dollar for each lap they run. Make it 5 dollars and someone might spontaneously run 100 laps and keep him there all day.
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He should also be careful hauling cash around in a crime-addled city
How often does any Olympic gold medal plan work? They're inherently tough to get for obvious reasons. Luck is always involved. Centro got it done and any criticism on this board of his Gold medal is utterly idiotic. Especially the 350 line by letsrun idiots(not you).
Don't you people realize that anyone in that race could have picked up the pace? he wasn't stopping them. There were people in his race with insane prs, and doping kiprop. And he found a way to beat them all, knowing that some of them could beat him in a Monaco situation. Centros as savvy as they come regarding race strategy, positioning, etc. And that's why he's an Olympic champion. And letsrun critics are in their mothers basement being all close minded thinking running a time trial is the only respectable way to win a race.
Not true in Olympic finals. It's risky to lead and these guys want to win. It absolutely gets slowed down by the field not wanting to pass the leader. Happened constantly with mo.
Following up bc you annoyed me so much. Nick's time of 142.95 would have won every Olympics except Atlanta(5th), London(5th), and Rio(4th by a hair) That's how wrong you are.
Everyone pr'd in the race and how many of them ever ran that fast again? That's why it was essentially a perfect race for everyone there.1:42.95 but you think that 5th was just lucky. No other race in history has been that fast by place.
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