I'm sorry Jonathan Gault is wrong, Centro didn't go too early - he just got beat

I agree with the Centro fanboys. Centro just wanted to qualify, and didn't care in the least about winning. 3rd would have been just as good. In fact, I think he probably held back a little to let Hocker win. He'll probably do the same thing at the Olympics. Centro the Brilliant Tactician is hatching a long-game masterpiece: he's intentionally boosting Hocker's prospects now and building his sense of self-confidence so that when he takes him down at the NEXT Olympics, it will be that much more gratifying.

The problem is that if Centro does take it out on the 3rd lap he could potentially blow up and not even finish in the top 3. But in the olympics he has to do that or he has no real shot at winning.

I actually thought Nuguse looked flat.

bruh why you got to crap all over JG like that?

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Occam wrote:

you guys also defended a drug cheat. Gault is a poor writer and and hack who is too concerned with being buddies with the people he covers. He's also very inexperienced which is why he gets duped so often.

Gault likes BTC and Jerry. I should say that all three of them Brojos and Gault, worship Jerry. Listen to the way they talk about the Houlihan positive test. With almost every word they defend her and also blame WADA for not doing their job correctly. You have to go outside of the running media to get an impartial and educated opinion on Shelby's positive test. Listen to this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTgpgaTRUsc

Jerry should be fired for being the most ignorant coach in running. Why on earth did Nike hire him.

Eh she’s probably guilty but rojo was right, that video sucks. Dude doesn’t even know what kind of burrito she ordered.

centro went to late! The gap was to close when Hocker exploded. Centro should have surged at 500, regrouped and then accelerated at 200 and then kicked at 50 to hold him off.

Occam wrote:

you guys also defended a drug cheat. Gault is a poor writer and and hack who is too concerned with being buddies with the people he covers. He's also very inexperienced which is why he gets duped so often.

+1000, the lot of them

Centro cannot reach the same top speed. He is a better runner and might have won with a faster race.

god dam wrote:

Centro obviously should have made his move sooner, from 500 or 600 out.

This is the obvious answer. Centro simply doesn’t have (at the moment at least) the finishing speed to match Hocker’s over the last 150-100. He would have needed to put a gap on him from 500-400 at least to compensate and outlast him on the longer sprint.

Hayduke wrote:

centro went to late! The gap was to close when Hocker exploded. Centro should have surged at 500, regrouped and then accelerated at 200 and then kicked at 50 to hold him off.

Centro doesn’t have that kind of fitness and confidence yet to kick from that far behind. Imagine he tried that and somehow a few hung in there to out kick him in. He’s an Olympic gold medalist, better to secure his spot on the team than to fvk around with a strategy he is not comfortable with yet. He knew only 1 or 2 could stay with him in a fresh 100 kick.

I thought it was interesting that this was like that breakout race vs Lagat, you know the one with the infamous throat slit. Lagat must have felt powerless unable to match his speed, and now Centro just felt the same vs Hocker.