Improvidential Hazards

With all the regalia and pomp of
a royal event, an immense audience
awaits each day's procession of proud
human prowess, physical endurance
and determined athletic excellence,
as the most marketed and prestigious
world-class sport competition sets
one nation's pride of achievement
against another's, all vying for the
titles of consummate talent and
human perseverance in metallic hues
of bronze, silver and gold; to witness
their nation's flag hoisted high, their
national anthem resounding as their
athletic stars mount the podium for
presentation and inclusion into the
Olympian world of rare devotion.  The
world's media faithfully report back
the excited glories achieved, recognition
won, as they are ferried from site to
competition site.  Among the blazing
self-applauding preening, one unnoticed
and very brief news report of a
media-stacked bus colliding with a
cyclist.  That news of great grief is
of moment to a very limited audience,
the young man's mourning family.