Do People Realize How Good Centro's Career Has Been?

If you don't have haters, you haven't accomplished anything.

Add state championship and ncaa championship to realize he’s run the table from high school to the Games.

He’s arrogant. And, he’s done.

Bad tats

Bedded with a convicted doper

No one from NOP gets to play the "I ran against a doper" card.

hes too real for the dorks on here

So, he's got one medal in three Olympic appearances. 🤔

Centro gets hate on LetsRun because he specialized in tactical races and never ran a big PR. But his legacy is intact. Olympic gold is by far the biggest achievement in track. And even if you discount the Olympic gold for how slow it was, he still deserves that 2013 WC gold instead of Kiprop.

I think people have also started to underrate that era of 1500m running - at the time, the fields Centro medaled in were considered some of the deepest ever. Yes, there was no Jakob pulling everyone to PRs, but the reality is that there were just as many sub-3:30 runners in the 2016 Olympic final (6) as there were in the 2021 Olympic final and the 2023 worlds final.

doping cheater

His career is about to get better by making yet another Olympic team as his swan song just like Nick Willis. Nuguse can run a 3:39 mile one day but he will never have the swagger of our golden boy Matthew.

Yeah, it seems like the only guy consistently better than Centro at his peak was the only guy to run 3:26 in the last 20 years/a doper, and Centro still got the best of him at the Olympics. I think he's underrated now because he's still racing and he's not as good as he was 8 years ago. After he retires I think perception will be that he's top 3 US runners ever, or close to it. 2 golds, a silver, a bronze, plus an indoor gold. How many US runners can compete with those medals? I think Lagat has an extra one or two. If you count WMMs, Rupp has Oly silver and bronze, gold and silver in Chicago, and a silver in Boston.

Centro won the Olympics though, which Lagat and Rupp never did.

I remember watching him run that 13 minute 5k and being blown away. I wish he was interested in the longer distances.

Do you apply that to Dathan as well?

jim ryun was thrice the runner matt ever could be.

One of the great championship runners. 1500m gets a bit of a hard time because tends to be tactical in finals, but Matt was one of the best.

Olympic Gold and Silver/Bronze at Worlds is a a great achievement. Imagine any US guy now getting that!! They'd bite your hand off!

You woke af bro

The American justification for bombing the world, and ripping off their fellow citizens.

Olympic Champion is the ultimate accomplishment. No further explanation required.

whoever isn't fooling their fool self knows Kiprop was forced by Nike to throw the 2016 Oly final, or be busted. Others probably were too.

USA had no big medals, and the name Centrowitz was Nike royalty.

There is no universe where Centro could have come close to beating Kiprop at any point during Kiprop's career. Even if Kiprop really were injured, which don't fool yourself.