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Loose cannon

Replay: To the camera after skating home first in the 1,500-meter race, Zhou had said: “Getting this gold I’ll change a lot, will become more confident, and this will enable my parents to live a better life.”

Run-on sentences, perhaps, if you’re a pedantic, nitpicking grammarian but other than that I don’t think you can fault the athlete for anything. Therefore, it’s pretty sad to witness a seasoned politician taking exception to the loose lips of “a kid” (Zhou is 18), for forgetting her “dear leaders” in the heat of the moment – fresh after a gold-winning race, that is, in the Olympics, the biggest sports meet of them all. However, putting a positive spin on the matter, I hope Yu’s advice helps prepare Zhou for what life might be like after sports, in case she wants to move on (or down) to sports government after she hangs up the skates. In case, that is, she ever wants to see sports continue to mix with politics.

Anyways, here are two media examples of “loose canon”:

1. Michael Lawrence, the sacked chief executive of the Stock Exchange, was a loose cannon that threatened to explode at any moment causing immense damage, a leading City market-maker said yesterday.

Rejecting allegations by Mr Lawrence that he was ousted by a “classic coup” of market-makers fearing that proposed reforms to the way shares are traded would hit their business, Donald Brydon, deputy chief executive of BZW, said the truth was very different.