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'It hurts, a lot' - Defending champion Kim Le Court-Pienaar forced to watch career-defining Liège-Bastogne-Liège from the sidelines

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Kim Le Court-Pienaar celebrates winning 2025 Liège-Basatogne-Liège (Image credit: Getty Images) Kim Le Court-Pienaar took one of the biggest wins of her career at Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes last year, but a broken wrist sustained in a crash at the Tour of Flanders means she will not be lining up as the defending champion on Sunday. Le Court-Pienaar has opened up about how hard it will be watching the race from the sidelines this weekend. "Not being on the start line this year… It’s hard to put into words. It hurts, a lot. This race means so much to me, and to watch it from the outside after experiencing something so special there… it feels like a piece of me is missing," she said in a team press release. Article continues below "There’s a frustration, of course, because you want to be there, you want to defend it, you want to feel that intensity again. But at the same time, it’s also given me even more hunger.…

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