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Blanca Fernández Ochoa's family is in full at the Cercedilla funeral home to say goodbye to the skier, whose burning chapel will remain open until 9:00 p.m.

"They are all broken. We have had very long days and now we are saying goodbye to her," said family spokesman Adrián Federighi on Saturday.

The fiery chapel of the skier has already opened its doors at the Cercedilla funeral home, where family members and neighbors have gone to say the last goodbye to one of the great pioneers of Spanish women's sport .

Before nine o'clock the two sons of Fernández Ochoa, Olivia and David Fresneda , as well as his sister Lola Fernández Ochoa were already at the doors of the funeral home.

"Few comments we can make today, we are saying goodbye to Blanca, we are all focused on this farewell. It is the last day we will have her here among us," said the spokesman for the family in statements to journalists.

"As you can see there is the whole family, one hundred percent of the family and many people are coming who loved her , who wants to fire her and we will be here until 9 p.m. serving everyone," Federighi added.

The spokesman has advanced that the family has not received any results of the autopsy and that the ashes of the athlete, which will be cremated tonight, will rest in Seven Peaks .

Sources of the family have explained to Efe that they will not spread tomorrow, since they are very tired of all these days and in the future they will choose a date to do it the whole family together in privacy.

"They are all broken, we have said it every day. It has been a long process because first we have looked for it with great enthusiasm, then when the outcome has been bad we have been very bad. (...) We have to recover our spirits and remember it happy and laughing as she was , " Federighi said.

The spokesman has added that the athlete's children "are super affected . " They are very young, they have lost their mother, there is no other image that is not that of pain and that they will miss her much more than us, because we had the fun part of Blanca and she still had to educate them and to nag. We always enjoyed her as a friend and as a sister. "

Asked about the celebration of a future tribute, the spokesman replied that "it is not the time to raise any of that."

The family has enabled an accessible electronic space through a QR code so that anyone can transfer their condolences with an electronic message .

The mayor of Cercedilla, Luis Miguel Peña, is in the funeral home, which will be attended by the Minister of Culture and Sports, José Guirao, and the president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), María José Rienda.

The Olympic taekwondo medalist Coral Bistuer, a family friend, has also moved, who has said that they are "all very sad" and that Blanca will be remembered as a woman "clean of soul, spirit and life . "

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