Louis Meintjes disappoints in the Giro d’Italia — but is improving
Louis Meintjes was Team Dimension Data’s main focus heading into the Giro d’Italia, but it has been Ben O’Connor who has put in the best showing for the team so far.South African Meintjes, who returned to "Africa’s team" for the 2018 season, was hoping to turn around a disappointing early season in Italy, but a week into the three-week race, he has so far not shaped against the other pink-jersey contenders.Thursday’s sixth stage went better, though, and he improved his position to 26th — but still four minutes and 34 seconds behind the new leader, Simon Yates of the Mitchelton-Scott team.Young Australian O’Connor, on the other hand, is sitting just 16 seconds behind the white-jersey wearer in the young rider competition and fancies his chances of taking that jersey from Movistar’s Richard Carapaz.O’Connor came 12th in Thursday’s stage, which ended with a climb up Mount Etna, and he lies 13th in the general classification (GC), one minute and 39 seconds behind Yates. He said on the t...
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