.Coley Harvey, ESPN Staff WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Fla Condition for Orlando Guard and also Georgia Technology for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern College graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old that turned minds at U.S. track and field tests in June, will certainly have the possibility to perform the very same at the Olympics on Friday, a source affirmed to ESPN.The Maryland citizen will certainly become part of the males's 4x400-meter relay staff that early morning when it participates in the position warm of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson runs in the 4x400 gauge relay on Friday, he will certainly end up being the youngest United States male to have ever joined an Olympic monitor and also area occasion. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the monitor inside the Stade de France, Wilson is going to come to be the youngest American male to have actually ever before joined an Olympic monitor and area event.In July, Wilson stated he was actually overjoyed when he obtained term that would be added to the Team United States relay swimming pool after he didn't receive the specific 400-meter dash at tests." When I received the call, I resembled, I was actually delighted," Wilson said. "I started rollicking your house. It was actually only a second for me since everyone fantasizes about going to the Olympics as a youthful little one." Publisher's Picks1 RelatedWilson mentioned he first began dreaming about taking part in the Games during the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was 8 years old. That same year, he started managing his premier activity, the 400, and has come to be a force in it.After two times cracking the event's under-18 world report while at U.S. trials, operating it in as little time as 44.59 seconds, Wilson went even lesser three weeks ago at a tuneup competition in Florida. There certainly, he managed a 44.20-second time that possessed the keep track of planet whiring in apprehension of what he could do on American relay groups once the Olympics arrived.Now, his chance is actually here.