.Coley Harvey, ESPN Personnel WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Fla State for Orlando Guard as well as Georgia Technician for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern University graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old who switched minds at united state track as well as industry trials in June, will possess the possibility to do the very same at the Olympics on Friday, a resource verified to ESPN.The Maryland native will certainly be part of the males's 4x400-meter relay crew that morning when it joins the opening heat energy of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson runs in the 4x400 gauge relay on Friday, he is going to come to be the youngest United States guy to have ever before taken part in an Olympic monitor as well as industry event. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the keep track of inside the Stade de France, Wilson will certainly become the youngest American male to have actually ever before participated in an Olympic keep track of and also field event.In July, Wilson claimed he was thrilled when he obtained phrase that would certainly be actually added to the Group U.S.A. relay pool after he didn't receive the personal 400-meter dashboard at tests." When I got decision, I resembled, I was actually ecstatic," Wilson claimed. "I began running around your home. It was merely a second for me given that everybody fantasizes about heading to the Olympics as a young little one." Editor's Picks1 RelatedWilson said he initially began hoping regarding joining the Games in the course of the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was actually 8 years of ages. That exact same year, he started running his premier occasion, the 400, as well as has become an interject it.After two times cracking the event's under-18 world file while at U.S. tests, managing it in as little time as 44.59 few seconds, Wilson went also lower 3 full weeks ago at a tuneup competition in Florida. There certainly, he operated a 44.20-second time that had the track world humming in anticipation of what he might perform on American relay teams once the Olympics arrived.Now, his possibility is listed here.