VIDEO | UAE leaders in good spirits - Ayuso cracks Del Toro and Matxin during press conference with... a paper airplane

UAE Team Emirates - XRG is a team that has a lot of thinking and planning to do over the next few days in the Giro d'Italia but it is not a team under tremendous pressure. There is a sense of relaxation within it's young leaders Juan Ayuso and Isaac del Toro, who shared a laugh over a particularly surprising moment during today's rest day press conference.

Due to the occasional problems in communication, there were moments of silence during the press conference in which the duo and team manager Joxean Matxín talked to the press regarding the team's current situation. During one of these, the Spanish rider decided to throw a paper airplane, cracking a laugh from Matxín and Del Toro who were next to him.

After a day where Ayuso crashed - for the second time in this race - and required three stitches in the knee, the spirits feel quite high in the Emirati team's camp, who currently have a firm lead of the overall classification heading into the second half of the race.