What is the significance of setting the coffin down at a threshold in "To An Athlete Dying Young"?

The second stanza is full of clues that point towards the
death of the athlete, even if we did not have the title to point it out to us. Note what
the speaker says to the athlete who has died in the second
stanza:

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Today, the road all runners
come,

Shoulder-high we bring you
home,

And set you at your threshold
down,

Townsman of a stiller
town.

Note that this road is
one that "all runners come," pointing towards the eventual death of everyone, no matter
how great and famous. Likewise, being set down at your threshold points towards being
placed in your grave, while the town we are told is still as it unites in mourning the
loss of one who received such adulation and praise.

Note
the way in which both first and second stanzas repeat that the athlete is carried
"shoulder high" by the crowd, which serves to reinforce the ironic parallel between the
two processions as the first remembers his moment of glory, and the second recalls his
moment of death.