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Tom Davidson

Why are riders at the Tour de France taping their noses?

Kévin Vauquelin at the Tour de France.

You might have noticed, maybe only in close-up shots or podium presentations, that some riders at the Tour de France are wearing small strips of tape on the arch of their noses.

Certain names in particular might spring to mind: Lidl-Trek’s Mattias Skjelmose, for example, Netcompany-Ineos’s Kévin Vauquelin, or Visma-Lease a Bike duo Victor Campenaerts and Jonas Vingegaard, whose bright pink bands are among the most visible in the bunch.

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