Young men of 25 die every day - in crashed cars, on battlefields, in cancer wards.
When it happens in a sporting arena it is no more tragic, but its impact is both more universally felt and somehow far more shocking.
Elite sportsmen are our real-time superheroes, capable of physical wonders beyond the rest of us, seemingly unbound by many of the same biological constraints.
Watching them can make us feel immune to the real world. Sport becomes our great escape from its darker mortal realities, an alternative playground where the language is one of battles and great victories but from which everyone walks away to fight another day.
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