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Bangkok, July 18 (EFE) .- The twelve boys and the coach who stayed more than two weeks trapped in a cave in Thailand said today. their "odyssey" after receiving the medical discharge, in the first and only press conference that they plan to grant.
The thirteen wore the shirt of the football team to which they belong, "Wild boar" and everyone smiled and presented a good physical appearance at the press conference in Chiang Rai, the capital of the homonymous province located in the north of the country.
Some of the boys, between 11 and 17, seemed looser in front of the cameras that to others, although the one who took the most time to answer the questions that formulated a presenter – and that – they were chosen among the hundred who presented the ways was the coach, Ekapol Chantawong.
He was the one who recounted how they were trapped in Tham Luang cave on Saturday, June 23, with no food and how they did not stop looking for a way out on the nine days that 's out. they lost.
They entered the cave after a training to celebrate the birthday of one of them, Peerapat Sompiangjai or Night, who is 17 years old, but an unexpected storm has drowned parts of the cave and cut the exit.
They dug in search of a leak and find safe places to sleep, according to one of the "jabatos", and added They advanced "three or four meters."
Ekapol said that they had only during the nine days that the water they drank fled through the walls of the cave disappeared.
One of the boys reported that he did not notice hunger in the first days, but after two days, they began to feel tired and weak.
However, every day, encouraged by the coach, they did something to get out of it and not lose heart.
In July, British divers John Volanthen and Rick Stanton found them four kilometers inside the cave.
One of the "jabatos" described this moment, after nine days without food and in the dark, as "miraculous".
The search was over and the rescue began: the British tried to cheer up and left them with lights before leaving to give the good news to the rest of an operation that had more than a thousand people including experts from Australia, the United States, China, Denmark, Finland, Israel and Japan, among other countries.
Dr. Phak Lonhanchun, of the Thai army who was with them inside the cave, said at the press conference: all the boys had the same physical conditions and he n & # 39; There was no seriousness that would let them decide who would go first.
Coach Ekapol revealed today that they decided that the first
extraction was divided into three days: on the 8th they took out four, the 9 They rescued four others, and on the 10th they took the rest, calming the children, and carrying them on a stretcher. in the flooded sections, at the exit point.
The doctors who took care of them after the rescue indicated that they found enough mental and physical strength to return home.
The government recommended that the group return to normal life and avoid becoming the center of the media.
The boys argued that the first thing they would do is order Buddhist monks a few weeks because, according to Buddhist tradition, Saman Kunan the veteran Thai diver died during rescue operations. EFE
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