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<text id=89TT0524>
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Feb. 20, 1989: If You Can't Beat 'Em...
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Feb. 20, 1989 Betrayal:Marine Spy Scandal
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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PEOPLE, Page 92
If You Can't Beat 'Em . . .
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<p>By Howard G. Chua-Eoan
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<p> It was an upset, and Peter Muller, Switzerland's legendary
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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