"I have no regrets on anything I've ever done in my life," he told reporters on a teleconference call.

"I'm not going to put that kind of pressure on myself," she said yesterday in a teleconference call.

And yet, he said in a teleconference call Wednesday, he has never attended the combine.

"This is something new and fresh," Madden said during a teleconference call with reporters yesterday.

President Obama and Wallis spoke on a teleconference call about health-care reform.

"I'm a sprinter that happens to go over hurdles," she said yesterday during a teleconference call.

"You could call it a freelance position," Maloney said in a teleconference call.

Mr. Biden, who said he planned to run for president in 2008, made his critique during a teleconference call with reporters.

"I don't feel anything right now," Slutskaya said in recent a teleconference call before arriving at the Games.

But in her teleconference call, she said her decision to stay at home until recent days was not made to avoid the pressure of Turin.