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Blanquita is gone and I am left with her smile, a huge, full and white smile, like her name. When he smiled he seemed to tell you 'I am here and I want to be part of your happiness'. A smile like his brother Paquito's . I knew Blanquita because he was a friend of his family. A friendship that began with Paquito and that extended to the rest of the members of that great human group. I was very close to Paquito, I saw his death very closely. Fernández Ochoa are very welcoming and friendly. It is a very special clan, they have the facility to interact all together and encompass you, so that when you know one of them it seems that you have already known the rest from a lifetime. They are very healthy people. With them you always feel very comfortable.

I have a good relationship with everyone, with Lola , with Juanma , with Luis , with Alberto , with Ricardo ... Many times I have stayed with them to ski, but also to play golf in Madrid, in Navarra, in Huesca ... Fernández Ochoa are very fond of golf. Blanca was good at playing with the sticks. The truth is that Blanca stood out in many sports modalities. It is unquestionable that she was a pioneer and that marked the way for all those who came from behind, such as María José Rienda or Carolina Marín . His thing had a lot of merit: being a ski champion in a country like Spain, with little tradition, and residing in a town in the mountains of Madrid is only available to exceptional athletes.

Blanca had a natural talent and was always guided by her brother's referent. Well, Paquito was the guide and the light that the whole family followed. He was the binder, and everything was amalgamated by him. I sense that his death not only left a great void in Blanca, but in the rest of the family members.

Now, with the disappearance of Blanca, it seems that a halo of tragedy involves the group, but that is something that has also happened in other families, which were also marked by diseases or accidents. But it is true that the premature deaths of two banners such as Blanca and Paco are a huge blow for Fernández Ochoa, a fantastic family. It is a tragedy for them and for all of us who love sports and equipment in particular.

Blanca and Paco deserve a special memory to have been important in the world of skiing. They appeared by spontaneous generation. She was the first who did great things in a sport in which no Spanish had done anything before. His sports draft was huge. Blanquita, was a precursor. His was like a prize for that family in which all its members were overturned with skiing and lived in skiing as if they had it injected into their blood.

Goodbye friend.

Juan Antonio Corbalán

Former international basketball player, he is a friend of the Fernández Ochoa family

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