.Coley Harvey, ESPN Team WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Fla Condition for Orlando Sentinel and Georgia Specialist for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern University graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old that turned minds at united state monitor and industry trials in June, will certainly possess the opportunity to accomplish the exact same at the Olympics on Friday, a source verified to ESPN.The Maryland citizen will become part of the males's 4x400-meter relay team that morning when it joins the position heat of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson runs in the 4x400 gauge relay on Friday, he will end up being the youngest American man to have ever joined an Olympic keep track of and industry event. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the monitor inside the Stade de France, Wilson will certainly come to be the youngest American male to have ever joined an Olympic monitor as well as field event.In July, Wilson stated he was actually thrilled when he received word that would certainly be actually included in the Team USA relay pool after he really did not obtain the individual 400-meter dashboard at trials." When I acquired decision, I was like, I was thrilled," Wilson claimed. "I began running around the house. It was actually merely a second for me because everybody hopes regarding going to the Olympics as a youthful kid." Editor's Picks1 RelatedWilson claimed he to begin with began dreaming concerning joining the Games in the course of the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was actually 8 years of ages. That very same year, he started operating his premier activity, the 400, as well as has come to be an interject it.After twice damaging the celebration's under-18 world report while at united state tests, running it in as little opportunity as 44.59 few seconds, Wilson went also lower 3 full weeks earlier at a tuneup race in Fla. Certainly there, he managed a 44.20-second time that possessed the keep track of globe buzzing in anticipation of what he might perform on United States relay groups once the Olympics arrived.Now, his opportunity is actually right here.