Just 100 meters to the finish line of the Promenade des Anglais. Marianne Vos (CCC-Liv) won the 2020 La Course by Le Tour de France and looked to be on her way to her third victory in the seventh edition of the one-day race associated with the men's Tour. However, in the final meters, Vos was passed by Lizzie Deignan (Trek-Segafredo), and with the support of her teammate Elisa Longo Borghini, Vos took the win. After the race, Vos was understandably disappointed with second place.

"The finish line was too far and I started my sprint too early," Vos told Dutch television station NOS. 'I reacted to Elisa Longo Borghini and I should have waited a bit longer. It's a shame because it was a really good race. But this is cycling. When you come to the finish with Lizzie, you can't make mistakes like this."

Jeroen Blijlevens, sport director of CCC-Liv, commented that the race went according to plan, as the team had expected the climb up Côte de Rimiez, 40km from the finish, to be decisive.

"We knew we had to be careful on that climb. Marianne Vos was at the front when the pace picked up. Soraya Paladin was there at the beginning too, but it was a little too fast for her. Pauliena Ruijckaas almost lost the group," Blylevens recalled. Paladin lost contact midway up the climb and one Vos was left behind with Longo Borghini, Deignan, Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM), Demi Vollering (Parkhotel Valkenburg), and world champion Annemiek van Fluten (Mitchelton (Mitchelton-Scott), were left behind in the lead group. My plan was to attack on the descent of the climb. I didn't look back, just rode alone for 15 kilometers and hoped everyone else was suffering the same way I was." It was unfortunate that there were two Trek riders, because it is easier to attack when there is only one person per team. Van Vleuten himself is not a strong sprinter, so he knew he would have to work hard to get the results he wanted. When I saw the course, I knew it wasn't my race. Everyone said it was going to be a sprinter's race, so I am proud of what I did to make the race spectacular," she said. In the flat final, the six top runners worked together to maintain their advantage over the rest of the peloton, and in the last kilometer, the weak sprinters tried to break away from the field.

As the strongest sprinter in the bunch, the onus was on Vos to contain these attacks, and she jumped four times on the wheels of Longo Borghini, Van Fruten, and Niwi Adma in the last 2,500 meters. When Longo Borghini started her sprint, Vos was on her wheel again. Degnan jumped out of Vos' slipstream as he slowed just short of the finish line and crossed the finish line to win the race.