Dismounting from his bicycle as he arrives at campaign headquarters, he glances outside and says, "This weather is about as foggy as Senator [Ed] Murray's policy positions".
"Not the recommended procedure for dismounting a large farm animal," he says with a chuckle.
He was beaten by a Brazilian who everybody in China saw stumble slightly on dismounting.
Hartel remained paralyzed below the knees and still needed help in mounting and dismounting her horse.
This contrivance may have been used for mounting only, however, because of the danger of being unable to free the foot quickly in dismounting.
During the team competition Uchimura fell from the pommel horse while dismounting, but after his coaches appealed the scoring, the judges ruled that he should get credit for the dismount and bumped his score up seven-tenths of a point to push Japan onto the podium for the silver medal, ahead of Great Britain.
The apparatus stems from a wooden horse introduced by the Romans and used to teach mounting and dismounting.
In the final moments of this performance, she rode over to the presidente's box and asked permission to break the Spanish law forbidding a woman from dismounting her horse and fighting the bull on foot.
The motorcyclist allegedly punched the vehicle while on his bike before dismounting and punching the car windscreen, as seen in the video above.
Mr Murphy, who entered the 1958 Ras Tailteann, Ireland's premier cycling event, only six months after taking up the sport, was, among other exploits, famous for coming from nowhere to win the second stage, cycling a further 30 miles, dismounting in a field to lift weights for an hour and then draining blood from the vein of an unsuspecting cow to refill his water bottle.
As vehicles for transporting troops, trucks were replaced by armoured personnel carriers; these gave way in turn to, from which troops could fight without dismounting and some of which were almost as heavy and expensive as tanks.
