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- PEOPLE, Page 92If You Can't Beat 'Em . . .
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- By Howard G. Chua-Eoan
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- It was an upset, and Peter Muller, Switzerland's legendary
- downhill racer, decided to go with the flow. Last week at the
- World Alpine Championships in Beaver Creek, Colo., in
- temperatures of 9 degrees below, the 31-year-old veteran came in
- runner-up by a minuscule nineteen hundredths of a second behind
- West Germany's Hansjorg Tauscher, 21. To make matters worse,
- Tauscher, who works as a border guard, had never placed better
- than fifth in World Cup competition. Still, while picking up his
- award, Muller took the reversal in stride -- or rather, with a
- headstand. "I am happy enough with a silver," said an
- uncharacteristically magnanimous Muller, who has been described
- as a Rambo of the ski slopes. He relished beating all the other
- top contenders, including his nemesis and chief rival, fellow
- Swiss Pirmin Zurbriggen, 27, who came in 15th. Said Muller:
- "Better old and fast than young and slow."
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