Rockstar Games wrote:
Centro didn't show us anything really. The others allowed him to be all comfortable and cozy, that's all. They should have tried to mess up his plan. Just go see the indoor world 1500m this year, Willis messed Souleiman's plan and Centro took advantage of that.
Centro's opponents were more dumb than he was smart (I don't know if that sentence is correct but you get my point). Their fault still.
What a total crock, man. Centro ran an incredible race.
So, if someone wins partly through good tactics, then they just got lucky? And let me guess: if someone relies on fitness and wins with questionable tactics, that person is an idiot and was lucky no one else had a little more fitness?
Total hater garbage, but you're probably just a troll.
Anyway, as was pointed out, Kiprop is used to winning from the rear and even so tried to get into better position but failed. It's true that the 800 is different from a kick but I'm sure Makh was super confident in his kick as a 1:42 Olympic silver medalist and understandably so.
It's worth noting that Makhloufi was closing in Centro the last fifty and ran out of real estate. Oh well!
I don't see what anyone else clearly should have done differently other than Kiprop not wasting so much energy.
The fact is, the race went out slow and Centro made the best of it more than anyone else. I would have picked Centro to medal at any pace - it's not like he's some fluke guy who was expected to get last. He was expected to medal. And he had the best tactics, superb fitness (heck, with Kiprop seeming off and Makhloufi not PRing in the 1500 in a while, it wouldn't surprise me if Centro popped a fast one and finished the year as the world leader), and he freaking held off Kiprop AND Makhloufi, both of whom got on his shoulder in the last 200, with a 50.x.
Doesn't really get any better. Legendary.