Filippo Ganna will return to the Giro d'Italia in 2023 after missing this season for the Tour de France. He has already decided to start his campaign at the Vuelta a San Juan in January, and Paris-Roubaix will be the center of his spring.

Ganna, who is currently attending his first training camp for the new season at Ineos Grenadier in Majorca, has yet to draw up a detailed 2023 calendar, but in an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport he outlined the opening rounds.

"I don't want to go [to San Juan] in top form, but I don't want to suffer too much," Ganna told La Gazzetta. I'm going to work with the team now to plan our strategy for the races back in Europe." I will go to the European track championships in Grenchen (February 8-12). Then in the spring it's the Classics and the Giro d'Italia."

Ganna helped Dylan van Baarle win Paris-Roubaix last April and admitted to La Gazzetta that he will be going to hell north of Milan-San Remo in the spring. He also told La Gazzetta that in the spring he would aim for a hell of a lot further north than Milan-San Remo.

"I will train differently," he said. In the finale of the race I wasn't as sharp as I was in the beginning." 'At the end of the race, I often don't have the same sharpness that I had at the beginning. I talked to my coach, Dario Cioni.

Ganna followed up his 56.792 km hour record with a new world record of 3:59.636 to win his fifth individual Pursuit world title.

These performances colored a sometimes trying season that saw him struggle in his Tour de France debut and miss out on the time trial world title in Wollongong, in a different way The 26-year-old confessed that he had taken some criticism too much to heart. I don't bow down anymore," he said. 'Maybe I was listening to people too much.'

Ganna said he will "seek new goals" in 2023, but is aware that his race program will bring him back to familiar territory, especially the Giro. The Italian has a 100% record in the Giro time trial and has won the Maria Rosa on the first day of the race in his two appearances in 2020 and 2021.

Ganna will look to repeat the feat in Ortona on May 6. Remco Evenpoel will face stiff competition in the Giro's 18.4km opening time trial, and the two will also be strong contenders in the 30km test to Cesena on stage 9.

Asked if he was ready for months of media coverage of their impending duel, Ganna replied: "Yes, but ..... .you know that a lot can change in the next 5 months."