Blanca Fernández Ochoa (1963) was the best skier Spain has ever had. The Olympic athlete was found dead on August 4, 2019, more than a week after she went missing. It was a Civil Guard agent who found … the body of an unidentified woman in the Collado del Rey area and shortly after it was confirmed to match the former skier. Your daughter, Olivia Fresnedahe was the one who reported his disappearance. Blanca’s body appeared in Collado del Rey, an area near Pico de La Peñota (Cercedilla).
The autopsy revealed that he had traces of pills in his stomach. Forensic experts ruled that the death was not accidental, that it was not due to a fall because the body showed no bruises or injuries. Additionally, Blanca was carrying all the medications she took to treat her depression. Apparently the death of his brother Paco three years earlier, he had plunged her into deep pain from which he never recovered.
Blanca Fernández Ochoa
This December 26, your children David and Olivia They sat in on the set of “Friday!” » to remember this tragic event. During the television show, presented by Santi Acosta And Béa Archidonathe youngest of the family confessed that he had not seen any signs in his mother that worried him about her situation, although according to him “one of the signs was that she left Choco and Trufa, the dogs, at home. They were a pack of three, wherever my mother went, they went.
Mental health
Olivia, for her part, explained the reason why she reported her missing a few days later, when her mother showed no signs of life: “In the summer, we were leaving and there were about three days where she didn’t answer me. And four had already passed and I was like ‘where are you?'”. recognized.
Olivia and David during the heartbreaking search for their mother
After the news of his death was confirmed, his children entered a phase of total confusion. “I was like in shock that it’s not happening. And actually, I was focused on the Spanish rugby team,” Olivia said.
Despite the tragedy, the last moments with their mother remain one of their best memories: “The last day was a spectacular day. I mean, I saw her better than ever. “We went to eat, we went for a walk and she was happy, she was fine, I saw her well,” he explained. “The problem is she was a very good actressshe would have been a very good actress. Then he would just see you, he would receive you with a smile, even if he might cry later. But he never made us part of his problems,” his son said. And, apparently, “he kept everything to himself.”