A near-perfect season opener for FDJ-SUEZ built entirely around Demi Vollering. The team softened the Alt de Barx on Stage 1 to launch her decisive solo, defended the jersey on the flat Stage 2, and saw the toughest test removed when the queen stage was cancelled. Vollering closed it out herself with the Stage 4 group sprint — two stage wins and the overall, the kind of dominant opening week the squad wanted from its marquee signing.

Movistar took the only stage Vollering didn't, with 19-year-old Cat Ferguson winning the Stage 2 sprint in Vila-Real — a statement result for one of the team's brightest young talents. On the final day Liane Lippert made the lead group and sprinted to second behind Vollering, the finish bonus lifting her on GC. Two cards, two highlights, on either end of the age scale.

UAE Team ADQ rode consistently with Maeva Squiban, who was best of the rest behind Vollering: second on Stage 1, in the leading group on Stage 4, and second overall at +1:02. Eleonora Gasparrini added points-classification presence as a sprinting card, giving the team both a GC and a fast finisher across the week.

Uno-X Mobility's Mie Bjørndal Ottestad rode a clean, consistent week — top five on Stage 1, in the front group on Stage 4 — to take third overall at +1:12, the team's GC headline of the race.

Antonia Niedermaier was the only rider able to follow Vollering's first Barx acceleration on Stage 1 and backed it up in the Stage 4 lead group to finish fourth overall (+1:12). A strong GC ride for Canyon//SRAM that fell just short of the podium when the mountains that might have suited her were cancelled.

Team Visma's 19-year-old Viktória Chladoňová impressed with third on the opening stage and a spell in the white youth jersey, the standout result for the squad in a race where she briefly sat third overall before the final day reshuffled the gaps.