Centrowitz goes home DEVASTATED!!!

Mr Fluke: first in one global meet, last in another. Average is mid-pack, where his mid-pack times and ability belong.

Ovidius wrote:The guy is clearly hurt. He's been out of it all season, nearly closed up shop before USA's, but he didn't, deciding to give it a go anyway. Did it work out this time? No. But Centro deserves credit for giving it his best stab; it would have been very easy for him as Olympic champ to pull a Makhloufi and not race at all.

This is no different from the "Fred Kerley DFL is ok because he was tired from racing all year" nonsense.

If you have little to no chance of performing well, you step aside and let someone else go who might.

man...if the dude truly was knowingly doping leading up to 2016 , then well everything comes full circle. I have a lot of admiration for any elite athlete that makes it to that level given their sport. It's like .001% chance any of us can do what he has done. Some of these comments though..smh...

you people seriously make no sense. he hypothetically stops taking the dope, suddenly reverts back to his high school pr's ability. Idiots.

Bastani wrote:

Nah, theres heat on his coach. Probably cutting down on his pill regimen

I think the heat is on everyone (except Ayana obviously). The Fancy Bears hack(s) has totally spooked everyone. In the past you could get away with micro-dosing without anyone finding out, the IAAF would just bury it. But now dirty laundry is tomorrow's news.

The sayonara kid wrote:

Sick? try "off the centro juice." He's always had trouble in big time races, this is just a contiunation of the trend. Poster above is totally right. It's easy to do stupid celebrations when you're racing nobodies. Looks pretty bad now.

"Trouble in big time races" 🤔

2011: wins NCAAs, USAs, bronze at worlds

2012: 4th at Olympics by a hair

2013: silver at worlds

2016: Olympic Gold

I'd say his history at big races isn't too horrible. If you count those as successes, I'd say he's 4 for 6 for big races.

I'm with everyone who's saying he's clearly sick or has some nagging from his injuries. Everyone saying it's because he's off the juice, isn't it easy to say that about any bad performance?

+1 props to him.

Ihateletsrunmorethenu wrote:

Didn't whine or complain. I'm surprised he gave an interview. Props to him. There is no pleasing some on this site.

pericarditis

Should not have run

What happened?

Lololol wrote:

you people seriously make no sense. he hypothetically stops taking the dope, suddenly reverts back to his high school pr's ability. Idiots.

Well that is what would actually happen.

Classic olympic hangover.

There are some runners who cannot win on these boards. Every step they take is proof of weakness, cheating, or both, regardless of success, evidence, or character. Centrowitz is one of those runners.

Yeah, the guy who runs for maybe the shadiest orgainization in professional sports and shows a total lack of sportsmanship at every turn and suddenly starts running poorly once his shady organization comes under serious scrutiny is really being unfairly maligned. Get off your high horse and into the real world. Centro is a cheater, a choke artist, and not that great of a runner. And it's time that running journalist actually start asking him questions about this type of thing and not letting doping just continue on. Lewis Johnson's first question to him in the post-race interview should have been "you've had some tough races since the Nike Oregon Project started to come under serious scrutiny: what has your reaction been to those embarrassing revelations?"

Centro needs to go train in Ethiopia with Mo to "jumpstart" his career.

Kid running after Kipchoge wrote:

Just shows you how phony his gold is

Beat Mo and O'Hare earlier, didn't he? Conveniently forget about that, I guess?

LRC Commenter wrote:

Done and finished. Hurt and injured. NOP is finished. This is april of 1944, the usda allies baring down on salezar.

Guessing the pace went out faster than 75?

Stop the conspiracy wrote:

Kid running after Kipchoge wrote:

Just shows you how phony his gold is

Beat Mo and O'Hare earlier, didn't he? Conveniently forget about that, I guess?

That was before the dope wore off.

You have to remember his is the luckiest, most undeserved gold medal in Olympic history. 2015 Genzebe Dibaba would have won that final.

El Keniano wrote:

You have to remember his is the luckiest, most undeserved gold medal in Olympic history. 2015 Genzebe Dibaba would have won that final.

How? She wouldn't have gotten through the heats or semi's.