.Coley Harvey, ESPN Staff WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Fla State for Orlando Guard and also Georgia Technician for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern College graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old that turned heads at united state monitor as well as area tests in June, will definitely possess the opportunity to do the same at the Olympics on Friday, a source validated to ESPN.The Maryland native will become part of the men's 4x400-meter relay group that morning when it takes part in the opening heat of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson operates in the 4x400 meter relay on Friday, he will come to be the youngest United States guy to have actually ever participated in an Olympic keep track of as well as area activity. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the keep track of inside the Stade de France, Wilson is going to become the youngest United States male to have actually ever before joined an Olympic keep track of and also industry event.In July, Wilson claimed he was jubilated when he got word that would be actually added to the Group United States relay swimming pool after he failed to apply for the specific 400-meter dash at tests." When I acquired decision, I resembled, I was actually delighted," Wilson mentioned. "I started running around our home. It was actually simply an instant for me due to the fact that everybody hopes regarding going to the Olympics as a young little one." Editor's Picks1 RelatedWilson mentioned he first began hoping concerning participating in the Video 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, and also has actually come to be an interject it.After twice damaging the celebration's under-18 globe document while at USA trials, operating it in as little opportunity as 44.59 secs, Wilson went also reduced 3 full weeks earlier at a tuneup race in Florida. Certainly there, he operated a 44.20-second opportunity that possessed the monitor world buzzing in anticipation of what he can do on American relay staffs once the Olympics arrived.Now, his possibility is actually below.