Johnson has been caught on video by a UK newspaper hanging 20 metres above the ground after getting stuck on a zip-wire in a park near the Olympic precinct（选区，管辖区）.

 

After taking off to the sound of loud applause and cheers, Johnson was inevitably³ greeted with laughter when he came to a halt and dangled⁴（悬荡） over a crowd of onlookers⁵ - which naturally grew rapidly when word spread that the man in charge of the Olympic city was stuck on a zip-wire.

 

Johnson was clearly uncomfortable as the safety harness pulled up the pants on his suit, but luckily the London mayor has experience in awkward（尴尬的） situations and dealt with it in a lighthearted manner.

 

"Can you get me a rope?” Johnson asked the crowd of amused onlookers.

 

"I think they needed to test this on somebody going a bit faster."

 

British prime minister David Cameron commented later in the day that only Johnson could make such an embarrassing incident work in his favour.

 

"If any other politician anywhere in the world was stuck on a zip-wire it would be a disaster. For Boris, it's an absolute triumph," Cameron said.

 

For the record, Johnson was eventually taken safely to the end of the line and strongly recommended the ride to anyone that would listen, although he did have one tip for the owners of the ride.

 

"I think possibly what had happened was that they left a brake on or something," he said.

 

Speaking later to London radio station LBC, he described himself as "the Yuri Gagarin of the zipwire", in reference to the Soviet⁶ cosmonaut who was the first person to venture into outer space.

 

A spokeswoman for Mr Johnson said: "Clearly the judges are likely to mark him down for artistic⁷ interpretation⁸, and, unlike Team GB, he won't be bagging any gold medals today but he remains⁹ unbowed."

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