Centro goes home devastated.

This isn't about Centro, too bad for him, would love to see the US have two guys in the final and in the hunt for a medal.

This is about the internet know it alls.

Where are the guys calling the TT a great idea, just bad pacing etc.???

Come on guys, you were wrong admit it.

Shooting your wad in a worthless TT??

How did that work out????

Tribe wrote:

I was impressed with Hocker and I hope he does well.

The thing that disturbs me is the number of Americans that seem to rejoice in the failure of American athletes. Centro has been an all time great. I don’t know why so many root against him. Same with Rupp and countless others. I don’t remember it being this way in the past. Back in the 90s we didn’t have much to cheer for but I’m pretty sure most of us idolized Kennedy and Todd Williams and even Steve Holman (who could never come through for us but we stuck by him).

message boards are like catnip for the incels and losers...it goes with the territitory. it's really sad and destructive for amerivan t&f, but it matches the fash mentality that dominates this space.

hind sight? wrote:

This is about the internet know it alls.

1. Criticizes Internet know it alls.

2. Proceeds to criticize the reigning Olympic champ for his Olympic preparation.

Maybe you can act as his knew coach. You seem to know so much about how to best prep for the Olympics.

The guy from Luxembourg - Charles Grethen - also broke his previous NR by 4 seconds while being part of the fastest Olympic semi-final ever. Before this year his PR was still in the 3.4xs.

Crazy race and year for him!!

Most overrated O champion of all time.

Never a factor at world stage, never won a single diamond league. Just a lucky champ.

2016 many injured, pedestrian race, etc.

Champions like this should not exist.

Sopa de SabadelI wrote:

The only way to get ready for such race is to..... race!

One thing is to look cool with a finger in the air in some race against college kids in the states and a completely different thing to fight it out with the worlds best on a european circuit.

TT clowns....

Indeed.

But they are too scarred to lose to go race DL meets in June-July like most of the finalists did.

Mile TT lololol.

Go have a burrito.

dreesa wrote:

Tribe wrote:

I was impressed with Hocker and I hope he does well.

The thing that disturbs me is the number of Americans that seem to rejoice in the failure of American athletes. Centro has been an all time great. I don’t know why so many root against him. Same with Rupp and countless others. I don’t remember it being this way in the past. Back in the 90s we didn’t have much to cheer for but I’m pretty sure most of us idolized Kennedy and Todd Williams and even Steve Holman (who could never come through for us but we stuck by him).

message boards are like catnip for the incels and losers...it goes with the territitory. it's really sad and destructive for amerivan t&f, but it matches the fash mentality that dominates this space.

Wtf is fash??

tokyo2021 wrote:

AtletaEspanolo wrote:

:o

Patriotic Americans everywhere are in mourning. Self-hating Americans are rejoicing.

Nah sensible people aren't any surprised. After his mile record bombing and extreme slowing of a heat to 3.41, it was pretty clear he can't handle a faster pace.

Nothing to do with patriotism, but realism and not a blind over hyping of mediocre athletes. Same with coburn-- it wasn't really a surprise. Fell in Monaco; looked spent in a slow heat. Purrier would prob not break 4 in the final, but you'll here fantasies of a 3:55 here. analysts here driven by emotion rather than rational analysis chose to overlook red flags.

hmmm it's the olympic semis, he ran a sb time, I don't think he has anything to apologize for. Great group of 1500m runners looking fwd to finals.

Tribe wrote:

I was impressed with Hocker and I hope he does well.

The thing that disturbs me is the number of Americans that seem to rejoice in the failure of American athletes. Centro has been an all time great. I don’t know why so many root against him. Same with Rupp and countless others. I don’t remember it being this way in the past. Back in the 90s we didn’t have much to cheer for but I’m pretty sure most of us idolized Kennedy and Todd Williams and even Steve Holman (who could never come through for us but we stuck by him).

Seems there's a lot of miserable and unhappy people on these boards. They spend their free time writing angry and hateful things to try to fill some void in their lives.

Tribe wrote:

I was impressed with Hocker and I hope he does well.

The thing that disturbs me is the number of Americans that seem to rejoice in the failure of American athletes. Centro has been an all time great. I don’t know why so many root against him. Same with Rupp and countless others. I don’t remember it being this way in the past. Back in the 90s we didn’t have much to cheer for but I’m pretty sure most of us idolized Kennedy and Todd Williams and even Steve Holman (who could never come through for us but we stuck by him).

Haha it’s because there weren’t internet message boards back in the 90s like today. Remember dial up? LMAO. People are no different it’s just that technology hasn’t given them a convenient way to project the crazy things in their heads.

It would be fun to come up with thread topics from the 90s.

Here’s some…

Bob Kennedy finishes 6th in Olympic 5k and goes home devastated!

Is Steve Holman just a time trialer?

Do you realize there’s 100 guys in Kenya faster than Todd Williams?

Yes or No: Is Bill Clinton doping?

vella48 wrote:

Nothing to do with patriotism, but realism and not a blind over hyping of mediocre athletes.

You gotta put down the bong if Centrowitz is what you consider to be a "mediocre" athlete.

Tribe wrote:

I was impressed with Hocker and I hope he does well.

The thing that disturbs me is the number of Americans that seem to rejoice in the failure of American athletes. Centro has been an all time great. I don’t know why so many root against him. Same with Rupp and countless others. I don’t remember it being this way in the past. Back in the 90s we didn’t have much to cheer for but I’m pretty sure most of us idolized Kennedy and Todd Williams and even Steve Holman (who could never come through for us but we stuck by him).

Why are you shocked. It’s the American way, we’re assholes,

Tribe wrote:

I was impressed with Hocker and I hope he does well.

The thing that disturbs me is the number of Americans that seem to rejoice in the failure of American athletes. Centro has been an all time great. I don’t know why so many root against him. Same with Rupp and countless others. I don’t remember it being this way in the past. Back in the 90s we didn’t have much to cheer for but I’m pretty sure most of us idolized Kennedy and Todd Williams and even Steve Holman (who could never come through for us but we stuck by him).

Nah Centro is way too overrated in 2021. It's one thing to idolize someone, it's something else to overlook every objective pointer and claim he's a gold favorite amongst runners way, way better than him at the moment

Cole hocker was overjoyed too, until his semi today. He now deserves some consideration, but he's still short of favorite status

Kerr consistently backs up his trash talk of Centro. Remember that Centro 800's races/workout everyone was talking about? That was the meet Kerr solo'd 3:31. He also said he would've won at the US trials and that a 4 x 1500 would be dominated by the British. Great stuff!

Centrowitz never had the speed this season to be a strong medal threat. His Rio gold at 3’50” was one of the slowest 1500 in like a century. His semifinal time of 3’33” is roughly equivalent to a 3’50” mile that he only recently cracked, so it’s not like he floundered, rather he gave it a fighting good shot. His PB of 3’30” was 6 years back and if he could reproduce that, he’d be on more solid, but still hardly guaranteed, medal threat footing.

2016 was an anomaly for the US in 1500m; would be interesting to see Hocker prove otherwise.

Can’t wait to see Hole Cocker send Kerr back to the UK crying 1776 style

Bwahahahahaha

Centro gonna medal and end up better than Hocker..bwahahahaha

hind sight? wrote:

Shooting your wad in a worthless TT??

How did that work out????

I started that thread and was summarily chastised. Even by some “coaches” on here.