Looking good makes you feel good when you are dressed like the veteran runners.

He is a veteran in playing ping-pong.

In this context, the report read rather like a young sports champion consoling the veteran whom he has just bested.

Although his signing is a gamble, but for those who believe that the only veteran to do the replacement team, he is still valuable.

Good luck . . . but management veterans are not usually the best ones to judge the merits of investing in entirely new business models or making radical changes to existing models.