.Coley Harvey, ESPN Personnel WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously dealt with Fla State for Orlando Guard and also Georgia Technician for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern Educational institution graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old who transformed minds at USA monitor as well as area trials in June, are going to have the opportunity to do the same at the Olympics on Friday, a resource verified to ESPN.The Maryland local will certainly be part of the males's 4x400-meter relay staff that morning when it participates in the opening heat of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson runs in the 4x400 meter relay on Friday, he will come to be the youngest American male to have actually ever before participated in an Olympic keep track of and field activity. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the monitor inside the Stade de France, Wilson will certainly end up being the youngest American guy to have ever before joined an Olympic monitor as well as industry event.In July, Wilson said he was actually pleased when he got term that will be included in the Team U.S.A. relay pool after he didn't qualify for the private 400-meter dashboard at trials." When I got the call, I felt like, I was actually ecstatic," Wilson mentioned. "I began rollicking your home. It was just a minute for me because everybody dreams regarding visiting the Olympics as a young child." Editor's Picks1 RelatedWilson stated he initially began dreaming regarding participating in the Video games during the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was actually 8 years of ages. That same year, he started managing his premier occasion, the 400, as well as has ended up being a force in it.After twice breaking the celebration's under-18 globe report while at united state trials, operating it in as little opportunity as 44.59 seconds, Wilson went also lower 3 full weeks earlier at a tuneup competition in Florida. Certainly there, he operated a 44.20-second time that possessed the monitor globe humming in expectancy of what he can do on American relay groups once the Olympics arrived.Now, his possibility is actually listed here.