UAE Team Emirates - XRG press conference during rest day with Isaac Del Toro, Juan Ayuso, 1st and 2nd of Giro's GC, and their manager Matxin.
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00:00I just wanted to know this is your first Giro and I wanted to know if you have had a particular
00:09strategy for what you're thinking about and how you try to maintain your calm and your focus
00:17day-to-day during the Giro so far.
00:23Yes, I mean it's my first Giro. I'm so excited to be here with the team. It's such a strong team.
00:29I'm so proud to be in this position now and it is like a dream. I have one strategy is to do all the
00:36best of myself to give to the team and always with one goal. It's incredible to be in this position
00:43and I don't know I cannot be more happy about this. It's like a dream for me. Is there anything
00:50particular you've done though to try to you know maintain your stress levels as low as possible
00:55or just maintain as calm as possible you know over the course of the race so far?
01:02I mean of course I want to be a normal guy. It's a great result personally also and for the team
01:13but yes for sure it's just like a dream. I'm living this every day and I try to give all every day
01:20and of course I don't know I'm so excited. Of course sometimes I'm more nervous, sometimes I'm
01:29normal. I have just 21 years old but this is it's okay. I don't have too much pressure now.
01:36Okay well congratulations. Because I spoke to you before the Giro and earlier this year the plan was
01:43yeah we are good friends. Isaac can help me in the Giro and maybe in the future I can help him
01:49and now this is a different situation. Isaac is now in the pink and Ayuso is second. How do you
01:56look at this situation also as teammates but also as friends because you yeah you are happy with each
02:01other I can imagine. Yes of course it's like a situation of the race is good at the end. Yesterday
02:13we want to have a better day. I mean Brandon and Ayuso crash harder in this moment and of course we
02:20want to be safe but at the end for the team was not that bad and we just keep going for sure.
02:27we will keep going like like we we did giving all the best for the main result and we will try to
02:39our best for sure. It doesn't change nothing. The objective is the same and we will try.
02:47And I have to say that what impressed me the most about your performance yesterday was your technique
02:53because it was impeccable and I want to ask you if you believe this Giro d'Italia can be decided
02:59on technical sections with so much descents coming in the second and third weeks.
03:07I don't know to be honest if the technical it will be that important. Yesterday I always feel
03:14comfortable on the bike and I don't know I always feel really self on myself and I believe in me
03:21and yes of course technical is important but I don't know if this will be super super important
03:27for the rest of the Giro for sure with the bad weather yes but for sure we will see who it's going
03:34and I hope to have the same skills. And I have one more question for you and it's the last.
03:41Well obviously wearing the Magli Rosa is a new high for your still young career
03:46and because we can get nowhere without the people who support us I wanted to highlight
03:53if you could highlight two people that are very important to you which are your brother Angel
03:59and your coach Freddy. I mean I have so much people so important around me I cannot put one over
04:08another one my family is always there for me and my family is always for me I have a every person
04:14that I know they want just put me the best of me they want to see me in my best version and
04:20it's incredible I just I just can say thank you to everybody to my teammates my team my family my
04:27country because all the people that I know just want to see me better and in this incredible I don't
04:34know my my life now and the last years it's going to change a lot and it's amazing my highlights
04:42is every day thank you Isaac everybody Mexico are expected about the competition what do you think
04:54about this this this result in the race for sure it's a great result I think my my country and me
05:03we are taking care of the result that happened yesterday and I cannot be more proud about my
05:09performance and all the things that we did as a team is amazing and I don't know I just want to
05:15believe it and keep going like the way I go this is crazy who was yesterday and who my body is reacting
05:23day by day and and I'm super proud to be Mexican and having all this support around me. Which is the
05:31next strategy for the for the rest of the Giro? With the strategy for the rest of the Giro is maintain
05:40the pink jersey in the team and try to take the overall easy win and we will try as a team and for
05:47sure we give all to maintain this goal. Hello Isaac I would like to know what is the feeling to wake up in the
05:56it was incredible I cannot realize it's happening but yeah the problem was to get into the bed and try to
06:08sleep there the easy way to do it was wake up the problem was go to sleep but it was incredible it's
06:14insane. And just a quick follow-up regarding the fact that you started Strade Bianche this season did you need any
06:24special advice if I can say like that from today because we all know what he did when he started
06:32Strade Bianche did you get maybe any advice at all? What do you mean with advice for yesterday or for
06:41I don't know he just sent me a message like if I have the position to try just give out to try to win the
07:00stage because I think he believed in me and he told me if I have the position to try to win the stage