The athletes assembled here at Olympic Aquatics Stadium are forgiven, then, for some level of self-absorption.
"You dreamed, you paid the price," he then told the athletes assembled in Rice-Eccles Stadium, "May the fire within you light a fire within each of us".
Panels such as these, I understood, were assembled to allow athletes who consciously or unconsciously come into conflict with the rules of sport a chance at equitable redemption.
The assembled journalists out numbered athletes by nearly three to one.
The connection between Sunday night's coda and the Games came courtesy of a few hundred athletes, who were assembled in the middle of the stadium and were entertained or dumbfounded by the proceedings.
Drum'n'bass DJ High Contrast, who assembled the soundtrack to the athletes' parade, had appeared on The John Peel Show with his very first single, released on a small south London label in 2001.
At an event on Saturday, held ahead of the site's official Wednesday launch, Blue Jeans assembled a panel of contributing athletes and the media and fans.
Revithi arrived at the race location, the small village of Marathon, on Thursday, 9 April [, where the athletes had already assembled for the following day's race.
Like all type A personalities, as her bio says, she didn't just sit on the sidelines and moan; she assembled a team to create the perfect pad for athletic and yoga-pant-wearing athletes like herself.
Actors and athletes have long gravitated toward old cars; some have assembled collections, like Reggie Jackson's warehouse of 1960's muscle cars.
