Olympian Laura Kenny has opted against shoulder surgery so she can prepare for the Tokyo at next week's Track World Championships.

Kenny crashed in the tempo race in the omnium during the Track World Cup on January 26 in which she broke her shoulder.

A surgeon told the four-time Olympic gold medallist that this year's games would be 'off the cards' if she had surgery.

"I told him, 'an operation's not for me, thanks'.

"Did I want an operation to get it fixed, but with a two-week delay in me getting back on the bike, or did I want to just see how it goes?

"I decided to see how it goes and the next day I got back on my bike," she told BBC Sport.

Kenny will race in the scratch race and the ominium at the Championships being held in Berlin on February 26.

She added that she is targeting three events at the Olympics -the omnium, team pursuit and the madison.

"If I have the form that I had a month ago, I'd like to think I could still get selected for all three events come Tokyo."

Kenny is also determined to get to the Olympics so time spent away from her son is not wasted.

"The first two years he came along as I pretty much persuaded Jason to come to everything I went to because I wanted Albie there.

"I haven't sacrificed all this time with him for no reason and a part of me was thinking that when I crashed, I haven't put in all this hard work and had all this time away for no reason, so there was no way I was not going to the Worlds.

"I do it for Albie now. I want him and everyone to be able to see that these little hiccups happen but why should they get in the way?

"I know it's a broken bone, I'm not stupid, but if I can ride I will ride."