.Coley Harvey, ESPN Workers WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Fla State for Orlando Sentinel and Georgia Tech for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern College graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old that transformed heads at united state track and area tests in June, will certainly have the opportunity to perform the exact same at the Olympics on Friday, a resource confirmed to ESPN.The Maryland local will be part of the males's 4x400-meter relay staff that morning when it takes part in the opening warmth of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson runs in the 4x400 meter relay on Friday, he is going to become the youngest American guy to have actually ever joined an Olympic monitor and area celebration. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the keep track of inside the Stade de France, Wilson is going to come to be the youngest United States man to have ever taken part in an Olympic track and also industry event.In July, Wilson claimed he was actually jubilated when he obtained term that would be actually contributed to the Staff U.S.A. relay pool after he failed to obtain the personal 400-meter dash at trials." When I got decision, I was like, I was actually delighted," Wilson stated. "I started running around our home. It was actually simply a second for me due to the fact that everyone hopes regarding going to the Olympics as a younger youngster." Editor's Picks1 RelatedWilson claimed he to begin with began fantasizing regarding taking part in the Video games during the course of the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was 8 years of ages. That exact same year, he started running his premier celebration, the 400, and also has actually come to be an interject it.After twice cracking the occasion's under-18 globe document while at USA trials, running it in as little bit of opportunity as 44.59 secs, Wilson went even lower 3 weeks back at a tuneup race in Fla. Certainly there, he ran a 44.20-second time that possessed the monitor world humming in apprehension of what he could possibly perform on United States relay groups once the Olympics arrived.Now, his opportunity is actually below.