Meintjes keen to restart after season blighted by crashes

Louis Meintjes (Dimension Data) (Image credit: Getty Images)

Louis Meintjes (Dimension Data) is bringing the curtain down on something of a season to forget at the Tour of Guangxi. At the start of stage 5 in Liuzhou, the South African lamented the loss of two months of his season due to two separate crashes and admitted that he's looking forward to putting 2019 behind him.

The climber was one of multiple riders to crash out of Paris-Nice on a crosswind-hit stage 2, sustaining a groin injury that kept him out of action until the Tour de Romandie. Then, just ten race days after returning, he was caught up in a late crash on stage 4 of the Tour of California.

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