.Coley Harvey, ESPN Personnel WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Florida State for Orlando Guard and also Georgia Technician for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern College graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old who turned heads at united state keep track of and industry tests in June, are going to possess the possibility to perform the very same at the Olympics on Friday, a source validated to ESPN.The Maryland native will belong to the guys's 4x400-meter relay team that morning when it takes part in the opening heat energy of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson operates in the 4x400 meter relay on Friday, he will definitely become the youngest American male to have ever before taken part in an Olympic monitor and also industry event. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the keep track of inside the Stade de France, Wilson will come to be the youngest United States male to have actually ever before participated in an Olympic monitor as well as field event.In July, Wilson said he was actually jubilated when he acquired word that would be included in the Staff United States relay swimming pool after he really did not get approved for the private 400-meter dash at tests." When I got the call, I felt like, I was happy," Wilson stated. "I began running around our home. It was actually only a second for me since everyone fantasizes regarding visiting the Olympics as a young little one." Editor's Picks1 RelatedWilson mentioned he to begin with began hoping concerning joining the Games during the course of the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was 8 years old. That same year, he began managing his premier celebration, the 400, and has actually ended up being an interject it.After two times damaging the occasion's under-18 globe report while at U.S. tests, operating it in as little opportunity as 44.59 seconds, Wilson went even reduced 3 weeks back at a tuneup race in Fla. Certainly there, he operated a 44.20-second time that possessed the keep track of globe humming in anticipation of what he could possibly perform on United States relay teams once the Olympics arrived.Now, his chance is actually listed here.