.Coley Harvey, ESPN Workers WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Fla State for Orlando Sentinel and Georgia Specialist for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern College graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old that transformed minds at united state track and field tests in June, are going to possess the opportunity to carry out the same at the Olympics on Friday, a source verified to ESPN.The Maryland citizen are going to belong to the males's 4x400-meter relay staff that morning when it takes part in the position heat energy of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson runs in the 4x400 gauge relay on Friday, he will certainly end up being the youngest American male to have actually ever joined an Olympic keep track of as well as field activity. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the monitor inside the Stade de France, Wilson is going to come to be the youngest United States man to have ever before joined an Olympic keep track of and also area event.In July, Wilson claimed he was actually satisfied when he obtained word that will be actually contributed to the Group U.S.A. relay pool after he didn't receive the private 400-meter dashboard at trials." When I got decision, I felt like, I was actually delighted," Wilson said. "I began running around your house. It was actually simply a second for me considering that everybody hopes about visiting the Olympics as a youthful child." Publisher's Picks1 RelatedWilson claimed he to begin with began fantasizing concerning joining the Gamings in the course of the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was 8 years old. That very same year, he began running his premier activity, the 400, as well as has actually come to be an interject it.After twice breaking the occasion's under-18 planet report while at U.S. trials, managing it in as little time as 44.59 secs, Wilson went also reduced 3 weeks earlier at a tuneup competition in Florida. Certainly there, he ran a 44.20-second opportunity that had the monitor world whiring in apprehension of what he can carry out on American relay staffs once the Olympics arrived.Now, his possibility is actually here.