BREAKING: Centro out of Pre Bowerman Mile!

So Nike is analogous to the most successful distance/sprinting nations getting to do whatever the hell they want with no accountability?

Look, you guys will contort yourselves every which way to defend the EA and Jamaicans even though they had, and continue to have, no accountability. The same way you look for any angle to throw NOP (I will give you that you let Schumacher slide) under the bus with every insinuation or result. I still can't fathom how you can see that the NOP allegations trump what has and is going on in Kenyan, Ethiopia and Jamaica.

I'm all for accountability for Nike/Salazar and EA/Jamaica, as long as it's applied consistently - which in your particular case - it is not.

It's no mystery why a lot of us feel you have a anti Nike bias.

Yall are smoking crack if you think Centro is actually hurt.

He's either

1. Banged up and figured racing won't help him at this point

i.e. might make whatever is wrong a serious problem

2. afraid of getting his shit tossed by Asbel

road rashed wrote:

Keep in mind Treniere Mosier withdrew from Worlds due to "injury," where the factual, documented truth was she refused to take a random drug test upon entering the county. Not saying this happened to Centro, but would it surprise you?

Since it's factual and documented, can you please provide the link or information on where we can find the documentation? Oh, I see, you heard it from a friend who heard it from their cousin.

Wouldn't surprise me

road rashed wrote:

Keep in mind Treniere Mosier withdrew from Worlds due to "injury," where the factual, documented truth was she refused to take a random drug test upon entering the county. Not saying this happened to Centro, but would it surprise you?

Credit or refund wrote:

At what point do people start asking for a credit or refund from Pre and USATF.TV? Some people bought tix and subscribed based on who was going to run. Dibaba, Felix and now Centro are out. Those are pretty big names to be droping out this close to the meet.

Par for the course. In 2013 they put Rudisha on the start list. He did go to Eugene but only to see a specialist about his knee, which was probably his plan the whole time.

To get a stress reaction you normally have to run through shin splints for a while, how did Salazar allow that? He's slipping. Maybe Rupp will be next.

Check Centro's Instagram page and see the workouts with Mo and the one-leg compression calf sleeve trying to help out his stress reaction. He could still run, but it's not getting better.

Beevie wrote:

Have you ever watched a track meet in person? There are long stretches of nothing while they set up hurdles, take down hurdles, set up blocks, have runners stand around the start line, followed by 10 seconds to four minutes of excitement. Even the first 10 minutes of a 5,000 are rarely worth watching. A track meet does not make for spellbinding TV.

It can actually be pretty interesting watching the jumpers and throwers if you pay attention.

A TV feed could have constant live action if they showed everything at a diamond league. The problem is there's usually at least two things going on at once. They need to learn about picture-in-picture technology.

kjVC wrote:

Check Centro's Instagram page and see the workouts with Mo and the one-leg compression calf sleeve trying to help out his stress reaction. He could still run, but it's not getting better.

I didn't know what Instagram was and searched out Centro's page on the google. It's incredible. There's swaggy pics, me me's, videos that come up when you press the Play button and they're hilariously terrible. He doesn't like wearing a shirt I guess, he likes to show off that terrible chest tattoo. And to top it all off there's a terrible pic of him and Kobe. I get it now, I feel the same about Centro as I do about Kobe. I freaking hate him, but he's such a terrible dude that I almost like him.

dingle wrote:

Hopefully he'll be ready for the Post Bowerman Mile.

There you go.

You're an idiot. Why bring that crap up?

Makes sense. That time of the month for both of them...matching cycles.

crete wrote:

Would have failed a test, maybe?

That was last year's rumor.

WCTC wrote:

Does anyone else here follow him on snapchat? all the kid does is eat sour patch kids. breakfast lunch and dinner.

And then has Ben & Jerry's for dessert.

Personally, I like following their snapchats, just gives some interesting insight into their lives off the track.

How does Galen even make any money running only 5 races a year? What kind of coup with Nike did he pull to make a better than living wage to be a professional practice athlete who sometimes races?

Alberto Saladzar wrote:

oh yeah. Galen Too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.oregonlive.com/trackandfield/index.ssf/2016/05/wednesday_morning_news_notes_l_43.html

What exactly is a stress reaction, and how does it differ from a stress fracture?

On another note. Anyone follow Centro on snapchat? He has a crazy sweet tooth. Doesn't seem healthy for him to be eating ice cream and candy everyday. Thoughts?

rojo wrote:

we don't like the riches guy in the room getting to do whatever they hell they want with no accountable.

I hate to keep beating a dimwitted horse, but damn rojo, go back to kindergarten and this time pay attention.

Runczar wrote:

On another note. Anyone follow Centro on snapchat? He has a crazy sweet tooth. Doesn't seem healthy for him to be eating ice cream and candy everyday. Thoughts?

Probably makes no difference