.Coley Harvey, ESPN Staff WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously dealt with Fla State for Orlando Guard and also Georgia Tech for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern College graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old who transformed minds at U.S. monitor and also field tests in June, are going to have the chance to accomplish the same at the Olympics on Friday, a source affirmed to ESPN.The Maryland citizen will become part of the guys's 4x400-meter relay crew that morning when it joins the position heat of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson runs in the 4x400 meter relay on Friday, he will definitely end up being the youngest American man to have actually ever before joined an Olympic track and also industry occasion. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the keep track of inside the Stade de France, Wilson will come to be the youngest United States man to have actually ever participated in an Olympic monitor and also area event.In July, Wilson claimed he was actually jubilated when he obtained term that would be included in the Staff U.S.A. relay swimming pool after he failed to obtain the specific 400-meter dash at tests." When I received the call, I resembled, I was actually delighted," Wilson mentioned. "I started running around your home. It was only a second for me because everybody hopes regarding heading to the Olympics as a younger youngster." Publisher's Picks1 RelatedWilson stated he first began fantasizing concerning joining the Games in the course of the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was actually 8 years old. That very same year, he started managing his premier occasion, the 400, and has actually ended up being a force in it.After twice cracking the event's under-18 globe file while at U.S. tests, running it in as little time as 44.59 secs, Wilson went also lesser 3 full weeks ago at a tuneup race in Florida. Certainly there, he managed a 44.20-second time that had the monitor globe buzzing in anticipation of what he might carry out on American relay groups once the Olympics arrived.Now, his odds is actually listed below.