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This is one of the many reasons why Portillo is so great and what makes it so special.  On any given night you can meet a number of interesting people and have the opportunity to sit down and have a meaningful conversation with them.  I had the opportunity to meet and have a chat with an ex-boxer.  One of the things that I took away from that conversation that is worth mentioning here is that, part of the physical preparation that athletes do, is to protect themselves from injury.  As a boxer he worked out not only to throw powerful punches but also to sustain the hits taken to his body.  This doesn’t hold true for every sport but it certainly holds true for skiing.  Remember when Lindsey Vonn then Kildow took that horrific fall inTorino during the Olympics, and heroically returned the next day to race?  One of the reasons she was able to do this was that her body was physically able to take the impact.  If she were weaker than she was then she might have sustained worse injuries and not been able to race the next the day.