snowball

“Once you get going,” Vetro says, “it just snowballs. Now I don’t work with ‘regular’ people at all.”

After agreeing to take the first package, he describes a “snowball effect”.

But it "snowballed" and he then visited another 120 in France, followed by Belgium, Italy and Norway.

However, as doubt surrounding her abilities snowballed, competition organisers said last Sunday that Jiang had violated competition rules in the preliminary round, by receiving help from her teacher, who was also a contestant himself.

That future is now starting earlier than the coach planned at USC, with the Trojans desperate for any spark that might stop their disappointing season from snowballing any further.