.Coley Harvey, ESPN Personnel WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Fla Condition for Orlando Guard and Georgia Tech for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern College graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old who transformed heads at united state track and industry trials in June, will have the possibility to accomplish the very same at the Olympics on Friday, a resource verified to ESPN.The Maryland citizen will belong to the males's 4x400-meter relay team that early morning when it joins the opening warmth of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson runs in the 4x400 gauge relay on Friday, he will become the youngest United States guy to have actually ever before joined an Olympic monitor and field event. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the keep track of inside the Stade de France, Wilson will certainly come to be the youngest American man to have actually ever before joined an Olympic keep track of and also area event.In July, Wilson stated he was satisfied when he acquired term that will be actually added to the Team U.S.A. relay swimming pool after he failed to obtain the private 400-meter dashboard at trials." When I obtained decision, I resembled, I was ecstatic," Wilson pointed out. "I began running around our home. It was actually merely an instant for me given that everybody dreams about heading to the Olympics as a youthful youngster." Editor's Picks1 RelatedWilson said he initially started hoping regarding joining the Video games during the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was actually 8 years old. That very same year, he started running his premier occasion, the 400, and also has actually become a force in it.After two times breaking the activity's under-18 planet file while at USA tests, operating it in as little bit of opportunity as 44.59 few seconds, Wilson went also reduced three full weeks back at a tuneup competition in Fla. There, he operated a 44.20-second time that possessed the keep track of world humming in expectancy of what he can carry out on American relay groups once the Olympics arrived.Now, his odds is listed below.