The Tour de l'Avenir will be held again this summer, with the race organizers deciding to run a six-stage race in eastern France and the Alps from August 14-19.

The Tour de l'Avenir ("Tour of the Future") is considered the most prestigious race on the under-23 calendar, with recent winners including Egan Bernal (2017) Tadey Pogacar (2018).

Norway's Tobias Foss won the 2019 race and joined Jumbo Visma in 2020. Other winners in the past decade include Colombians Nairo Quintana (2010), Esteban Chavez (2011), Miguel Angel Lopez (2014), and Frenchmen Warren Barguil (2012) and David Gaudou (2016).

The Tour de l'Avenir will be held one week later than usual to accommodate the new, changed race calendar. The men's Criterium du Dauphiné will be held August 12-16 in the Alps. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, race organizers have announced that they will take stringent measures to protect athletes and the public.

The race route has been reduced from 10 stages, and the Charleville-Mezieres prologue and the following two stages have been cancelled. The Tour de l'Avenir Grand Depart will take place on Friday, August 14, 2020, at Château Thierry, east of Paris, with the first stage covering 175 km before finishing in Val sur Aube.

The stage then climbs into the Jura Mountains on the stage to Sept Montserre, followed by a 17.5 km mountain time trial on the slopes of the Col de la Faucille near the Swiss border. Stage 4 enters the Alps and finishes in Saint-François-Longchamps near Chambéry. Stage 5 is short (69 km) but climbs to La Toussuire, and the Tour de l'Avenir ends with a mountain stage to Bourg St. Maurice, which climbs the 2,770-meter-high Pass d'Iseran.

The race is once again open to national teams and will be a major stage for young riders looking to turn pro.

"The continuation of the Tour de l'Avenir is a defining moment for the under-23 generation of riders who have lost the opportunity to showcase themselves in this special year and risk depleting recruitment in the professional category. Race organizer Alp Velo had this to say about the race and the route.

Stage 1: Chateau Thierry (Esne) - Val sur Aube (Aube) (168 km)

Stage 2: Champagnol (Jura) - Sept Montserre (Jura) (137.8 km)

Stage 3: Divonne-les-Bains (Ain) - Col de la Faucille (Ain) (17.5km ITT)

Stage 4: Saint Vourbas (Ain) - Saint Francois Longchamp (Savoie) (193km)

Stage 5: La Tour-en-Maurienne (Savoie) - La Toussuire (Savoie) (69 km)

Stage 6: Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne (Savoie) - Bourg-Saint-Maurice / Les Arcs 1800 (Savoie) (134 km)