A trademark Reusser time trial. The Swiss specialist, racing on home roads, posted 29:36 at 48 km/h to win the stage by 11 seconds and turn a 55-second GC deficit into a 10-second lead. After staying patient and conceding minimal time on the punchy opening stages, she executed the ITT she had been targeting all week to seize the yellow jersey from Longo Borghini before the final mountain stage. She also moved up to second in the points classification.

• 23.7 kmFastest time of the day, 29:36 at 48.028 km/h, to win the stage and take the overall lead

Reusser was one of the aggressors, attacking with Niewiadoma on the first finishing climb to blow the group apart. But the move backfired in the chaotic finale: with around 3 km to go she and Niewiadoma rode off the marked course, conceding the chase to Longo Borghini. She came home at 47 seconds and sat fifth on GC, banking on the stage 4 time trial to recover.

• Attacked on the first finishing climb to split the group
• 3 kmRode off the prescribed course with Niewiadoma, ending the chase

Reusser raced a patient, calculated week. She conceded little on the hilly opening stages, survived an off-course moment in Locarno, then unleashed a dominant home time trial in Aarburg — 29:36 at 48 km/h, winning by 11 seconds — to take the yellow jersey by 10 seconds. She now defends a slim lead against the climbers on the final mountain stage.

• Stage 2: attacked with Niewiadoma but rode off course in the finale
• 23.7 kmStage 4: won the Aarburg ITT by 11s to take the overall lead

Reusser stayed attentive in the favourites' group and finished eighth at 48 seconds, conceding little on a punchy day that did not suit her. With the stage 4 time trial circled on the route, she was content to keep her losses minimal on the opening stage.

Dropped early on the Finestre by FDJ's pace, conceding nearly a minute and slipping further down GC.

Dropped on the climb by Dickson's pull and lost 53 seconds, slipping from 2nd to 5th overall — the first sign that the high mountains did not suit her the way the time trial had.

The TT world champion was beaten by 1:04 on a course too steep for her, but 2nd place moved her into 2nd overall — her high point of the race before the high mountains.

Made the front split on Montenars and finished 7th, well-positioned ahead of the Stage 4 time trial that suited her.

Second in the Nevegal time trial and 2nd overall after Stage 4, but the TT world champion faded badly on the highest mountains — dropped on the Finestre and again on the Montoso — to slip out of GC contention. Her time trial remained Movistar's race highlight.

• 2nd in the Stage 4 uphill TT, +1:04 to van der Breggen

Arrived as a top favourite after winning Dwars door Vlaanderen three days earlier, then crashed out in the pile-up before the Koppenberg with around 40 km to go. Movistar later confirmed a fractured lumbar vertebra, ending her cobbled campaign.

Won with a textbook power-rider's move, attacking on the flat in the closing kilometres rather than waiting for a sprint, then committing fully once Vollering joined her. When the duo's late hesitation let Nooijen close, she was the one to relaunch and stabilise the lead, before edging Vollering on the line in a photo finish. A signature spring result — and one that came three days before she fractured a lumbar vertebra in the Ronde crash.

• 12 kmAttacked on the flat to launch the winning move; Vollering bridged across
• 1 kmRelaunched after the duo stalled and Nooijen nearly bridged
• Edged Vollering in a photo-finish two-up sprint