.Coley Harvey, ESPN Staff WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Fla State for Orlando Sentinel and Georgia Technician for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern University graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old that turned minds at united state monitor as well as field tests in June, are going to possess the possibility to accomplish the exact same at the Olympics on Friday, a source validated to ESPN.The Maryland citizen will belong to the men's 4x400-meter relay group that early morning when it takes part in the position heat energy of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson runs in the 4x400 gauge relay on Friday, he will certainly come to be the youngest United States male to have ever taken part in an Olympic track and also area celebration. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the monitor inside the Stade de France, Wilson will end up being the youngest United States guy to have ever taken part in an Olympic track and also industry event.In July, Wilson claimed he was actually tickled when he got term that will be added to the Team U.S.A. relay pool after he really did not obtain the personal 400-meter dashboard at trials." When I received the call, I felt like, I was actually ecstatic," Wilson pointed out. "I began running around our home. It was simply a minute for me considering that everybody dreams regarding visiting the Olympics as a young little one." Publisher's Picks1 RelatedWilson stated he to begin with began fantasizing regarding participating in the Games throughout the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was 8 years old. That exact same year, he started managing his premier celebration, the 400, and also has actually become an interject it.After twice damaging the celebration's under-18 world document while at united state trials, managing it in as little time as 44.59 few seconds, Wilson went even lesser three full weeks earlier at a tuneup competition in Fla. There, he ran a 44.20-second opportunity that had the monitor world humming in anticipation of what he might perform on American relay groups once the Olympics arrived.Now, his possibility is actually here.