Coinciding with the 32nd anniversary of Blanca Fernández Ochoa’s Olympic bronze medal at the 1992 Albertville Games, the first medal in history for a Spanish athlete, Blanca Fresneda shared an emotional message on her social networks in memory of her mother. Some words that she took advantage of to praise the skier’s feat and to show her grief for her loss.
“Today you just won your medal, as you said, an insignificant piece of metal but deep down we know that it is probably one of the biggest things I have ever seen,” Fresneda wrote in an Instagram post.
The daughter of Blanca Fernández Ochoa also recognized that it was a hard moment for her: “And today I have just opened something that I had hidden inside: pain and sadness. They are feelings that we don’t usually like very much but we have to let them be and let them calm down. “They deserve it after so long.”
After several publications on social networks, Fresneda has decided to give her first interview on television, in which she remembered the figure of her mother and in which she could not help but get emotional.
“She was a person who kept a lot to herself and I consider her very brave for everything she did being the way she was. I hope to be half as brave as her throughout my life,” he explained on the set of Fiesta.
Fresneda acknowledges that “she was not aware of her mother’s illness” until the same year she died. She, she says, hid the mental health problems she suffered from from him, although she assures that she would have liked to have known about them sooner.
Furthermore, he has taken advantage of his intervention to ask for more support for those who suffer from a problem of this type: “I consider it very important to work on it and give it visibility that mental pain or a metal illness is also an illness.”
