.Coley Harvey, ESPN Staff WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Fla Condition for Orlando Sentinel and Georgia Technician for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern College graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old who turned minds at U.S. monitor and also area tests in June, are going to have the chance to do the very same at the Olympics on Friday, a source confirmed to ESPN.The Maryland citizen will certainly become part of the males's 4x400-meter relay crew that morning when it participates in the position heat energy of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson manages in the 4x400 meter relay on Friday, he will certainly come to be the youngest American man to have actually ever before taken part in an Olympic track and also area celebration. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the keep track of inside the Stade de France, Wilson is going to become the youngest American man to have actually ever participated in an Olympic monitor and also industry event.In July, Wilson said he was actually pleased when he received word that would be added to the Team U.S.A. relay swimming pool after he failed to apply for the private 400-meter dashboard at tests." When I acquired the call, I resembled, I was ecstatic," Wilson claimed. "I began running around your house. It was merely a second for me considering that everybody fantasizes about heading to the Olympics as a youthful child." Editor's Picks1 RelatedWilson mentioned he first started hoping concerning participating in the Video games during the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was 8 years of ages. That very same year, he began operating his premier occasion, the 400, and has come to be a force in it.After twice damaging the celebration's under-18 planet record while at USA trials, running it in as little opportunity as 44.59 few seconds, Wilson went also reduced three full weeks ago at a tuneup competition in Florida. There, he ran a 44.20-second time that possessed the monitor world humming in apprehension of what he could carry out on United States relay teams once the Olympics arrived.Now, his odds is actually listed below.