Mr Ojeda, a widower with diabetes who was the seventh man to be rescued from the San Jose mine, is reported to be grateful that no one else will profit from his words.

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And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

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Two criminal drifters, Song and Tang, have developed a scam: they befriend one of the many uprooted men looking for work and tell him that they know of a job at a rural mine, but that the man must pretend to be their brother in order to be hired.

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"I didn't lose the championship in Abu Dhabi so that's not a problem at all, it wasn't mine to lose, " he says and dismisses the tag that he might be the nearly man of the sport.

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