.Coley Harvey, ESPN Personnel WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously dealt with Florida State for Orlando Guard as well as Georgia Tech for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern University graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old who switched minds at united state track and field tests in June, will definitely have the chance to carry out the same at the Olympics on Friday, a resource verified to ESPN.The Maryland local will be part of the guys's 4x400-meter relay staff that morning when it participates in the position heat of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson runs in the 4x400 gauge relay on Friday, he will come to be the youngest United States guy to have actually ever before participated in an Olympic keep track of and also area celebration. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the track inside the Stade de France, Wilson will become the youngest United States man to have ever joined an Olympic keep track of and also area event.In July, Wilson mentioned he was actually overjoyed when he obtained term that would certainly be added to the Crew U.S.A. relay pool after he really did not apply for the individual 400-meter dashboard at trials." When I obtained decision, I was like, I was thrilled," Wilson mentioned. "I started rollicking your house. It was merely a second for me given that everyone hopes about visiting the Olympics as a youthful little one." Publisher's Picks1 RelatedWilson claimed he initially began fantasizing about participating in the Gamings during the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was actually 8 years old. That very same year, he began operating his premier celebration, the 400, and also has become a force in it.After two times cracking the event's under-18 planet report while at U.S. trials, operating it in as little opportunity as 44.59 seconds, Wilson went also reduced three full weeks earlier at a tuneup race in Florida. There certainly, he operated a 44.20-second opportunity that had the keep track of planet whiring in anticipation of what he could do on United States relay crews once the Olympics arrived.Now, his odds is actually listed here.