.Coley Harvey, ESPN Staff WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously dealt with Fla Condition for Orlando Sentinel as well as Georgia Specialist for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern University graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old who turned minds at united state monitor as well as industry trials in June, will certainly have the opportunity to carry out the very same at the Olympics on Friday, a resource verified to ESPN.The Maryland local are going to become part of the guys's 4x400-meter relay staff that morning when it takes part in the position warmth of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson manages in the 4x400 meter relay on Friday, he will become the youngest American man to have actually ever before taken part in an Olympic keep track of and industry activity. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the monitor inside the Stade de France, Wilson will definitely end up being the youngest United States male to have ever joined an Olympic monitor and also field event.In July, Wilson said he was actually pleased when he received term that would be actually included in the Team USA relay pool after he didn't apply for the private 400-meter dashboard at tests." When I obtained the call, I was like, I was actually ecstatic," Wilson stated. "I began running around our home. It was actually only a second for me given that everybody fantasizes about heading to the Olympics as a younger child." Editor's Picks1 RelatedWilson mentioned he first began dreaming concerning joining the Games throughout the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was actually 8 years old. That exact same year, he started running his premier event, the 400, as well as has come to be a force in it.After two times damaging the celebration's under-18 planet file while at USA tests, managing it in as little bit of time as 44.59 seconds, Wilson went also lesser 3 weeks earlier at a tuneup competition in Fla. There, he managed a 44.20-second time that had the keep track of world whiring in anticipation of what he could possibly carry out on American relay staffs once the Olympics arrived.Now, his odds is listed below.