At just 21, Jack Marley became Ireland's first heavyweight boxer at the Olympics since 1996.
After winning his first bout, a medal was not to be for the Dublin boxer when he lost to Tajikistan’s Davlat Boltaev in the quarter-finals.
Just over a year later, Marley is preparing for the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool next week and hopes to learn from his experience in Paris.
"It was tough leaving in the medal fight, just being so close to the podium.
“The immediate reaction was of disappointment. But then, once you sit back and take it all in as a Games as a whole and an Olympic cycle as a whole, I was happy on the outcome of the four years.”
The years previous would have seen all of Jack's focus on qualifying and preparing for the Paris Olympics, which saw Kellie Harrington claim Ireland's sole medal in boxing.
Coming down from being an Olympian has been an easy transition for Marley, who has enjoyed the simple things in lift in the months that followed.
"It was fairly easy. You are in a bubble for so long, and then when you are out of the bubble, it just takes a few days to come around.
"You are back with your friends and family, and you are back to seeing everyone, that is the best part of it.
"It is cool. There is a lot of people in the village with the same aspiration and the same goals which is amazing.
"We were pretty dialled in at the Olympics, so we didn't go wondering much. We didn't take a look around the village as much as we should, but we were so locked in and focused on what we had to do."
The tournament will be a historic moment for boxing, as World Boxing breaks away from the International Boxing Association after years of controversy.
In its first tournament, Ireland have sent a strong team with
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