.Coley Harvey, ESPN Personnel WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Florida Condition for Orlando Sentinel and Georgia Technician for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern College graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old that turned minds at U.S. monitor and field tests in June, will have the option to perform the exact same at the Olympics on Friday, a source affirmed to ESPN.The Maryland local will become part of the men's 4x400-meter relay team that morning when it joins the opening heat energy of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson runs in the 4x400 gauge relay on Friday, he will end up being the youngest American male to have ever taken part in an Olympic monitor as well as area activity. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the track inside the Stade de France, Wilson is going to come to be the youngest United States male to have actually ever before joined an Olympic keep track of and also industry event.In July, Wilson said he was pleased when he received phrase that would be contributed to the Crew U.S.A. relay swimming pool after he really did not get the specific 400-meter dash at trials." When I got the call, I resembled, I was actually overjoyed," Wilson said. "I began rollicking your house. It was simply a second for me because everybody hopes concerning going to the Olympics as a younger kid." Publisher's Picks1 RelatedWilson claimed he to begin with started dreaming concerning taking part in the Gamings during the course of the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was 8 years old. That very same year, he started operating his premier celebration, the 400, and has become an interject it.After twice cracking the event's under-18 globe record while at U.S. trials, operating it in as little time as 44.59 secs, Wilson went even lower three weeks ago at a tuneup competition in Florida. There certainly, he managed a 44.20-second opportunity that possessed the track globe buzzing in anticipation of what he could perform on United States relay crews once the Olympics arrived.Now, his opportunity is listed here.