.Coley Harvey, ESPN Team WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Florida State for Orlando Sentinel and also Georgia Tech for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern Educational institution graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old who transformed minds at USA monitor and also field trials in June, are going to have the option to carry out the exact same at the Olympics on Friday, a source affirmed to ESPN.The Maryland local will certainly belong to the men's 4x400-meter relay crew that early morning when it takes part in the opening heat of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson operates in the 4x400 gauge relay on Friday, he will definitely come to be the youngest American male to have ever before joined an Olympic keep track of and also area celebration. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the keep track of inside the Stade de France, Wilson will definitely become the youngest American guy to have actually ever participated in an Olympic track as well as field event.In July, Wilson mentioned he was actually tickled when he got phrase that will be actually contributed to the Crew U.S.A. relay swimming pool after he really did not obtain the individual 400-meter dashboard at trials." When I obtained the call, I resembled, I was actually delighted," Wilson stated. "I started running around your home. It was actually merely a second for me because everybody hopes about heading to the Olympics as a youthful child." Editor's Picks1 RelatedWilson said he initially began hoping concerning joining the Games during the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was actually 8 years old. That same year, he started managing his premier event, the 400, as well as has actually become an interject it.After two times damaging the event's under-18 world file while at united state trials, managing it in as little time as 44.59 secs, Wilson went even lower three weeks back at a tuneup competition in Florida. There, he operated a 44.20-second opportunity that had the monitor planet humming in apprehension of what he might carry out on United States relay staffs once the Olympics arrived.Now, his possibility is actually listed here.