.Coley Harvey, ESPN Team WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Fla State for Orlando Sentinel as well as Georgia Technology for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern University graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old that turned minds at U.S. monitor and also field trials in June, are going to have the opportunity to do the same at the Olympics on Friday, a source affirmed to ESPN.The Maryland native will become part of the guys's 4x400-meter relay team that early morning when it participates in the position warmth of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson manages in the 4x400 gauge relay on Friday, he will come to be the youngest United States male to have ever before participated in an Olympic monitor and also field activity. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the monitor inside the Stade de France, Wilson is going to end up being the youngest American male to have actually ever participated in an Olympic monitor as well as industry event.In July, Wilson said he was actually overjoyed when he acquired phrase that will be actually added to the Team USA relay pool after he really did not receive the individual 400-meter dashboard at trials." When I acquired decision, I resembled, I was ecstatic," Wilson claimed. "I started running around our home. It was actually only a second for me considering that everybody dreams concerning heading to the Olympics as a younger youngster." Publisher's Picks1 RelatedWilson mentioned he first began hoping about taking part in the Video games throughout the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was 8 years old. That very same year, he started running his premier celebration, the 400, and has ended up being a force in it.After two times damaging the event's under-18 world file while at united state tests, running it in as little opportunity as 44.59 few seconds, Wilson went also reduced three weeks back at a tuneup race in Florida. There certainly, he operated a 44.20-second opportunity that had the track globe buzzing in expectancy of what he can perform on United States relay groups once the Olympics arrived.Now, his opportunity is actually here.