OPENINGThe race opened on Friday 12 June with a 118.6 km run from Saint-Jean-de-Luz to Mourenx, the clearest sprinters' day before the mountains. Eliška Kvasničková (VIF Cycling Team) went solo with just under 60 km to go and built a gap of more than three minutes, but Cofidis, UAE Team ADQ, Liv AlUla Jayco and FDJ United-SUEZ organised the chase and reeled her in inside the final 11 km. Martina Alzini (Cofidis) won the bunch sprint ahead of Federica Venturelli (UAE Team ADQ) and French champion Marie Le Net (FDJ United-SUEZ), taking the first leader's jersey. A large mid-stage crash forced several abandons.
UNFOLDSStage 2 on Saturday was the queen stage — a short, brutal mountain day from Arrens-Marsous over the Col du Tourmalet and down to Bagnères-de-Bigorre. Paula Blasi attacked on the Tourmalet more than 10 km from the summit, dropped the GC group and kept extending her lead on the climb and the long descent. She won solo in 2h 42' 15", 1:59 ahead of a chase group led home by her UAE Team ADQ teammate Dominika Włodarczyk — a result that effectively decided the overall in a single afternoon.
DECIDEDThe Tourmalet was where the race was won. Blasi's solo move turned a three-day stage race into a procession: she took the stage, the leader's jersey and the climber's classification at a stroke, and UAE Team ADQ placed Włodarczyk into second overall behind her, giving the squad a stranglehold on the podium with one day to race.
FINALEStage 3 on Sunday, 114.4 km from Nay to Jurançon, offered attackers a last chance. A 10-rider breakaway went clear and stayed away; Eline Jansen (VolkerWessels Cycling) crashed inside the closing kilometres but remounted and surged to win the stage ahead of Léa Curinier (FDJ United-SUEZ). With no threat to the lead, Blasi rode safely home to seal the overall — final winning time 9h 02' 21", 1:57 over Włodarczyk and Berthet, who shared the same time in the GC.