I know how Kermit Cintron felt. One of my friends have it the same way. He is a very good runner. However, the few times that he was really pressured, he would respond in a manner which is fairly similar to the way Kermit did. Once when I ran with him, he was in front most of the way, but after approximately 6 miles. I caught up with him and I felt strong, while he looked tired. What did he do? By the next hill, he gave it full throttle and came first on the next corner and was some 15 meters ahead of me ... and when I rounded the corner I saw that he had taken the wrong path. I yelled at him several times that he had taken the wrong path, but he just kept going. When we got home, I was there first and he came back about 20 minutes later. He said he took the wrong paths (despite the fact that he ran the same route every day for several years) and that he had not heard me yell out (although I was not more than 20-25 meters from him - at the most). Another time he got a foot injury and so on. He simply can not bear to lose, but strangely enough - if he is behind from the start then he will eat himself up to try to win .. but if he is in front and then is pressured - then he finds a way to get out of it in a way that looks as though he probably would have won if .... For me it seems as though this was precisely what Cintron did. Perhaps he regrets it today, but I think it was a reaction on his good start and that he was unsure of whether he could continue the good style ..
Once they told him, its to late, the gurney is on it's way!! That's when he knew it was an opportunity lost. But before that, he was just trying to escape the pressure cooker that P WILL was about to put him through!!!
It did look like cintron had pauls number! But in the end he wouldnt of won because cintron lacks mental toughness, and hes a PUTO!!!
I think Cintron won the first rounds, but I doubt he would have won in the end - and so did he, I think.
