Louis Meintjes Louis Meintjes Louis Meintjes (born February 21, 1992) is a South African cyclist riding for . He won the South African National Road Race Championships in 2014, and has finished 8th overall in the Tour de France, on 2 occasions in 2016 & 2017. He has also finished 10th overall at the 2015 Vuelta a Espana. Meintjes announced himself to the cycling world in September 2013, when he earned the silver medal in the World Under 23 Road Race Championships. Meintjes had an impressive 2014 season where he rode his first grand tour, the Vuelta a Espana. His best result
Contested ideological terrain Contested ideological terrain Contested ideological terrain is, in sociology, a theoretical framework that looks at sport as a cultural practice that reinforces both the certain existing power dynamics and the agency of human groups and individuals. Instead of looking at sport as a purely positive force, where individuals and groups of people can use sport as a means of achieving social mobility and success, or as a cultural practice that is solely detrimental, where sport reinforces the social inequalities in our world, this framework looks at sport as something that encompasses both. According to Douglass Hartmann: “Sport is a ‘double-edged