Filippo Ganna hopes to compete in both the team pursuit and individual time trial at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Earlier this month, Ganna broke the world record for individual pursuit twice in one day at the Minsk World Cup, reducing the record to 4:02.647. The feat came just a few weeks after she won the bronze medal in the individual time trial at the World Championships in Yorkshire.

"The team gave me carte blanche:" Ganna told La Gazzetta dello Sport (opens in new tab). 'I'm going to Tokyo to win medals in both races. I need to be a little ambitious.

"In Team Pursuit we have two teams ahead of us, Denmark and Australia. With Great Britain, it could be three teams. But it's not decided that way. We were strong at the World Championships, but we were unlucky. It won't take that long. The time trial route is hard, but so was the Yorkshire route. But I am confident I can do it."

Ganna is entering her second season with Team Ineos after moving from UAE Team Emirates. In addition to winning his third individual pursuit world title on the track, he has three wins on the road, at the Tour de la Provence, the BinckBank Tour, and the Italian Championships time trial.

He told La Gazzetta dello Sport that he will attend the Ineos training camp in Mallorca from December 10-20. After running the track world championships in Berlin, Ganna could run Tirreno-Adriatico and possibly Paris-Roubaix.

Whether Ganna will make his Grand Tour debut in 2020 remains to be seen, but he is hoping for the Giro d'Italia, which features three individual time trials, including a short opening test in Budapest. the Tokyo Olympics, to be held in early July, will likely will shape his season.

"The Tour is too close to the Olympics and doesn't seem like the ideal preparation, at least to me. The Vuelta is too far away and who knows what my condition will be like," Ganna said.

"I have these ideas in my head: the World Championships in under four minutes (in individual Pursuit), the Giro with three time trials, and the Olympics in both Team Pursuit and time trials.

Ganna dismissed the prospect of turning his attention to developing as a stage racer after the Tokyo Olympics, suggesting that he would need to lose more than 5 kg to make any impact in three weeks.

"I have to completely change my physique. 'When I'm in good shape, I struggle to get below 80 kg, so I have to put up unthinkable watts. In the Grand Tour, I need to be below 75 kg. It's not easy at all."