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Virtually everything around Cercedilla (6,900 inhabitants), a beautiful corner of the Sierra de Madrid, refers to the Fernández-Ochoa .

In front of the Town Hall itself, a statue of Paco , the firstborn of the family, earning an unlikely gold in special slalom at the Sapporo Games 72. His sister Blanca , who was then nine, would win the bronze two decades later, in 1992, by what has in the town an "avenue" with its own name.

And friends and memories everywhere: "Look that she has come here, very much," says a local at Helio Restaurant. "My God, but if we have met them from the mountain many times," explains Ana , a middle-aged woman, horrified at nine days of disappearance.

"They have always been here"

Retired, Felipe Gutiérrez , former fire chief of Guadarrama Park, who has shared many sets with her, refuses to think about Blanca in the past: "They have always been here, always. And they are the flattest people you can imagine , especially Paco and Blanca, who had a very similar, cheerful character ... Well, she has it. "

Only five kilometers from these mountains of dense vegetation and majestic charm are others even taller, and bare. There, to the same Port of Navacerrada (1,858 meters of altitude), the parents of Blanca, Dolores Ochoa and Francisco Fernández moved from Carabanchel, shortly after she was born, in April 1963.

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Fernández became the manager of the Spanish School of Skiing, Ochoa in the cook of the institution and the eight children of both passed, runs that runs, to be part of the small permanent population of the enclave, which would gradually become a pole of attraction of nature for today more than six million inhabitants of the Community of Madrid.

Blanca always saw (or has seen) with unexpected feelings that unexpected gold medal of her older brother, the always smiling Paco. As a result, several of the Fernández Ochoa puppies were sent to different stations, interns, to invest their skills and talents in skiing.

Blanca's family, in the search area.

This is how she won the Olympic medal in 92 due to her destiny from four years earlier, when in the Calgary Games she led the first sleeve of the Slalom and in the second, with all of Spain rubbing her eyes on the television, she fell down loudly. But also, sent to Vielha (Lérida) from the age of 11 to be programmed as a ski champion, she moved away from the stages of her childhood, whose happiness contrasted, for her, with the severity - "and the cold, which hated him "- of his Lleida years.

Although the life of high competition led her after half the world, Blanca never completely disappeared from these places, very soon after, already retired, to walk them and taste them as who walks for another time. "But I was here all day," says Cirilo , 55, who has a bar in Las Dehesas, 100 meters from where the car appeared. "Look, the same Thursday before Saturday when they say she disappeared she was here, I saw her with people from the town. And in my restaurant she has made many company meals, the last one in November. It's an aunt, Blanca's cannon. He never stopped being very village, very flat, very nice. "

Luis Miguel Peña , mayor of Cercedilla speaks: "After retiring, he spent many years living here in the town. His whole family is a true embassy of the people outside, a privilege." In the 80s, in the basement of the family villa in the town, the Fernández Ochoa came to open a pub "which was very successful and lively, they even had a mechanical bull from those of the time ...".

Now, as if it were a character from Scott Fitzgerald - dragged down by his past - the little Fernández-Ochoa remains, somehow, hidden among the impressive pine trees of the place, in these vericuetos that were his childhood and that have been his life Ambush is not known if temporarily, or definitively.

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