.Coley Harvey, ESPN Personnel WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Fla State for Orlando Guard and Georgia Tech for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern Educational institution graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old that turned minds at united state keep track of and also area trials in June, will certainly possess the possibility to accomplish the very same at the Olympics on Friday, a source affirmed to ESPN.The Maryland local are going to belong to the guys's 4x400-meter relay staff that early morning when it joins the opening heat of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson manages in the 4x400 gauge relay on Friday, he is going to come to be the youngest American guy to have ever before taken part in an Olympic track as well as area event. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the monitor inside the Stade de France, Wilson will definitely come to be the youngest American guy to have actually ever taken part in an Olympic monitor and also industry event.In July, Wilson stated he was actually satisfied when he received phrase that would be actually included in the Staff U.S.A. relay pool after he failed to obtain the individual 400-meter dashboard at trials." When I got the call, I felt like, I was delighted," Wilson pointed out. "I started running around your house. It was simply a second for me considering that everybody dreams about visiting the Olympics as a younger youngster." Editor's Picks1 RelatedWilson said he to begin with started dreaming concerning taking part in the Gamings throughout the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was actually 8 years old. That exact same year, he started managing his premier event, the 400, as well as has actually ended up being a force in it.After twice breaking the occasion's under-18 planet record while at united state tests, running it in as little bit of time as 44.59 few seconds, Wilson went even lower 3 full weeks ago at a tuneup competition in Fla. There certainly, he ran a 44.20-second time that possessed the track globe buzzing in apprehension of what he can do on American relay groups once the Olympics arrived.Now, his possibility is here.