The Tour de France la course will return to the Champs-Elysées in Paris in 2020, organizer Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) announced Tuesday.

The seventh edition of the Women's World Tour is currently scheduled for July 10, but if the date remains the same, it will not be held in conjunction with the final stage of the men's Tour de France, which will be held in Paris on July 19.

CyclingNews understands that the La Course date may be changed to July 19, but that has not yet been confirmed.

"The 7th edition of La Course by Le Tour de France powered by FDJ brings the world's elite back to the Champs Elysees, where it all began in 2014 with Marianne Vos winning the sprint," ASO wrote in a press release.

"Starting in 2016, the race has moved to new pastures to give other types of riders their day in the sun. Annemieke van Fluten won the clock and mountain races and was dominated by none other than the formidable Marianne Vos on the puncher-friendly circuit in Pau last July.

The ASO has confirmed that next year's 7th edition will feature 13 laps of the Circuit des Champs-Elysées for the women, for a total of 90 km.

La Course by Tour de France was created by ASO in 2014 as a circuit race to be held on the Champs-Elysées on the last day of the Tour de France. It is a sprinter-friendly format, and the first three editions were won by Vos, Anna van der Breggen, and Chloe Hosking.

In 2017, organizers moved to a two-day attempt, with a summit finish on the Col d'Isere on the same day as stage 18 of the men's race, followed by a handicapped time trial in Marseille. Van Vleuten won both stages and the overall.

And in 2018, the race returned to a one-day mountain road race between Annecy and Le Grand-Bornand. Van Vleuten also won this event, which was held in conjunction with stage 10 of the Tour de France.

This was another one-day event held on the Pau circuit. The 27km circuit was the same one used by the men in the Tour de France's stage 13 time trial. Vos won his second title on La Course.

Some members of the cycling community have expressed disappointment that ASO did not expand La Course into a major stage race like the Tour de France.

ASO said it was considering a women's stage race to rival the men's Grand Tour, but did not say it would be a women's Tour de France. Instead, ASO stated that it is "logistically impossible" to have both men and women at the same time.

The ASO also said that in addition to considering the launch of a women's stage race, it would set up a special working group aimed at supporting the development of women's cycling.