WAGGA hockey product Dylan Brown lost the gold medal he won with the Australian under-21s in a tournament in Malaysia in 2017. It's "somewhere in Byron Bay".
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But he won't be making the same mistake with some more precious cargo, his Olympic silver medal, which will be safely tucked away at his parents' Wagga home.
The 23-year-old returned to the city for a visit this week and reflected on his first major tournament with the Kookaburras at this year's Olympics in Tokyo.
Australia fell just short of becoming the second Kookaburras squad to win gold, going down to Belgium in the final after a tense penalty shootout.
But Martin hopes to earn chances to go one better at next year's Commonwealth Games, the World Cup in 2023 and the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
"I think as time's gone on you get more appreciation for the medal," he said.
"We obviously wanted to win gold but I'm shifting my focus to the next year, trying to get to the Commonwealth Games and then Paris is just around the corner as well. I need to keep focusing on my game.
"It's a pretty big next few years. Comm Games will be our next step and we'll probably spend a fair bit of time in Europe playing Pro League and then the European teams will come here in 2023 as well.
"We've got the World Cup in 2023 so there's a big tournament each year."
Currently one of the 'Rook-aburras', as they're dubbed in camp, Martin knows he can't afford to get complacent with places in the squad hard fought.
He learned plenty of valuable lessons by being thrown in the Olympics pressure cooker.
"It was beneficial just playing different international teams, seeing what individual players do and what they bring to the game," he said.
"It's not just the hockey side of things, it's the emotional side. What moments in the game do they try and turn it on or sit back, things like that.
"You play a game like that (Olympic final), it's a lot of pressure. There's some things we could have done better and things we didn't execute how we like.
"The amount of support we got from Australia was huge and it helped everyone in NSW was in lockdown as well. I haven't met a single person yet who didn't watch that game.
"There's some points on my game I need to work on and other things I did really well. I've got a good six months to really work on my game and things I want to improve on."
Martin said he didn't feel a great deal of anxiety trying to prove himself as one of new faces to the Kookaburras set up.
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"The Kookas group you feel very welcome and I was picked for my ability at the time, not them thinking I could be decent down the road," he said.
"I'm not a nervous person but there is some moment when you feel it. That's the situation we live in, we have a saying in camp tat pressure is a privilege and I think we did that pretty well.
"We've had very good teams over the past few years but fallen short at the Olympics. We've only got one gold, so at Paris we'll be going hard for that.
Martin is keen to add more layers to his game to ensure he remains in the squad for the big tournaments ahead.
"The next stage for me is I want to secure my position a bit more. I know people who have played ten years and they miss out, then they get back in," he said.
"Nothing's certain or guaranteed, it's about performance and I think that's why the team is so successful as well.
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