"This decision was made under pressure, the facts were distorted," said Timofei Chaly, who won the 400m hurdles.
"He does not deny the remarks, he just says first of all what he said was distorted," said Yves Charpentier, press counselor to the French Embassy.
There is a real danger the democratic underpinning of the planning system will be distorted," said Neil Sinden, policy director at CPRE.
"Unlike the payments made to farmers for certain commodity production, conservation payments are considered nontrade distorting," said Representative Ron Kind, Democrat of Wisconsin.
Steven Milloy, an adjunct scholar at the conservative Cato Institute in Washington and the creator of a Web site called "Consumer Distorts," said Consumer Reports has a left-wing bias that has infected some of its product testing.
"It is a serious distortion of what I said to the police and I have no further comment to make as that, no doubt, will be distorted," he said.
The elections "have been manipulated and distorted," he said.
His views on economic crashes had been distorted, he said.
"From his earlier experience, his sense of risk is distorted," Dr. Goodman said.
"When she is mad, the video image is distorted," she said.
