One year out, Ireland's medal trail to Paris Olympics is hotting up

Ireland went to Japan with roughly a dozen medal possibilities. The sense is that we will have something similar in a year’s time and that this could translate into four medals

COUNTDOWN IS ON: Today marks 'one year to go' to the 2024 Olympics Games in Paris. Pic: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images

The delayed Tokyo Olympics weren’t long in the rear-view mirror when Ireland’s new chef de mission Gavin Noble took the wheel, flipped the ignition and pointed Team Ireland on a route that will end at next year’s Games in France.

A triathlete at London 2012, Noble came to this most demanding of gigs on the back of a deputy’s role to Patricia Heberle in Japan three years ago so he had a good roadmap to follow for the journey, pit stops and pitfalls to come.