Olympic 1500 Splits?

You have me curious about the value of drafting. Does drafting (or not) matter that much when the pace is as slow as it was? It doesn't seem like it would be. Certainly not the pace of the first two laps.

It seems the key thing is whether a runner can get to the point of a race where he can execute the kick he wants. I believe Centro took great care to do that even though he was at the front. A 50.6 final lap speaks for itself. The only exception may have been between 400-600M from the finish. At that point Centro said that he may as well start working to protect the lead. So for a brief distance he was in that zone of running from the front, at a pretty fast pace, but before he started his kick. I would think that is the only time where front running took a little out of him. But of course he had the reward of having a head start into the final lap, the inside rail, and no worries of jockeying to find an opening to kick.

Blankenship was right beside Centrowitz at 800m.

He was outside of him and less than 0.1 behind Centrowitz, but clearly Centrowitz was in the lead and thus had a quicker time for first 800m.

If a supposedly 'official' document has Blankenship as first and Centro as 2nd at 800m, then it is wrong and unreliable.

Deanouk wrote:

said88 wrote:

Wow - thanks for this very detailed analysis.

3:50 in an Olympic final. At least it has had one good aspect. Enough time for german TV to still cover the full last lap after an looong break inbetween to see some field eventers going to there place after some failure. From Ayana's WR they showed - nothing. (just last lap after the race). Just for info: they televised every athletics session for several hours. Unbelievable. But out of context here - sorry.

Thanks Said88!

I can't believe they left the 1500m race to show field events!?

The BBC showed it all, in it's entirety, and the women's 10k.

I know - you happy man to have the BBC!

They left the 1500m for two full minutes! In these two minutes they showed two javelin throws with replay, some slomos and how the athletes slowly walk back to there clothes.

But from Usain Bolt I think every movement which he did in Rio outside of his hotel room was to see live in Germany.

Yes, there are other options to see an Olympic final, but still the way ARD and ZDF covered athletics from Rio (every session for several hours) was an unbelievable shame.

It might have discussed here or in another thread longly already, but sometimes it's hard to understand what Kiprop is doing. It's so obvious that in such a jogging festival his chances are not the same than in a 3:30 race.