One year on, ‘Wild Boars’ now lead charity race

Popular boys: Members of the Wild Boars soccer team with their medals after finishing the charity race in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province. — AP

Mae Sai (Thailand): A Thai youth football team and their coach led a charity race near the Tham Luang cave which they entered exactly one year ago, emerging alive 18 nail-biting days later.

The dangerous and unpreceden­ted rescue mission to save the 12 boys and their coach, who got stuck in floodwaters in the cave in northern Thailand last year, captivated the world.