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Twelve boys and their football coach Ekkapol Chantawong (C), dramatically rescued at the bottom of a Thai cave after being trapped for more than a fortnight, arrive for a press conference in Chiang Rai on the 18th July 2018, after their release from the hospital.
The young footballers and their coach appeared healthy when they appeared in front of the media for the first time on July 18th. / PHOTO AFP / Lillian SUWANRUMPHA
Twelve boys and their football coach who survived The rescue of a flooded Thai cave publicly spoke of their incredible ordeal for the first time Wednesday at a press conference which has been radiated around the world.
The members of the Wild Boars team seemed healthy and happy. days spent in the dark before being discovered by members of an international rescue team.
A large crowd greeted the young people after they left Chiang Ra Hospital. I watched playing football on a small makeshift field before taking a seat.
"It's a miracle," said Wild Boars footballer, Adul Sam-on, 14.
The team had no food at all until they were found at the bottom of the complex, surviving only on the water flowing down the river. Cave.
But the doctors said that all 13 were in good physical shape.
The briefing was tightly controlled, experts warning of a possible long-term distress after more than two weeks spent in a flooded room at Tham Luang Cave in northern Thailand. 19659003] The Chiang Rai Public Relations Department solicited questions from the media in advance, which were sent to the psychiatrists for review.
Junta leader Prayut Chan-O-Cha on Wednesday urged the media to be cautious.
Interest in the saga has been intense, as production houses are already filming a Hollywood drama treatment.
The doctors advised the families of the players, aged 11 to 16, that they should avoid letting them contact the journalists for at least a month
"The happiest day of my life "
Families of young people eagerly await their return
Khameuy Promthep, grandmother One of the boys rescued from the cave, Dom, 13 years old, said to AFP in an interview at her family store in Mae Sai, near the border with Myanmar, that she was very excited.
"It's the happiest day"
The bold international effort led by the Thais to save the team has captivated the world after the football team has entered the cave on June 23 and was trapped by the floods.
the food they were found emaciat The rescuers discussed on the best plan to get them out but finally decided on a risky operation which involved plunging them into waterlogged passages while they were sedated. "
Even foreign cave diving specialists who participated were not sure that the mission would work and that many expressed their relief when all was over after the last five were saved in July 10.
Row of "Pedo"
Special attention was drawn to the rescue of one very public moron between the entrepreneur Elon Musk and a British caver who participated in the rescue.
Tesla CEO Musk called Vernon Unsworth "pedo" during an extraordinary attack on social networks, after the spelunking expert had ridiculed Musk's plan to recover the trapped group at the time. Help of a miniature submarine
. (H) The actions against me do not justify my actions against him, and for that I apologize to Mr. Unsworth and the companies I represent. leader, "Musk wrote on Twitter." The fault is mine and mine alone. "
Musk's attack against Unsworth had drawn general indignation and briefly sent shares into the tumbling of Tesla. Unsworth told AFP that he could sue Musk about the offensive tweet. / Vvp
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