.Coley Harvey, ESPN Workers WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Florida State for Orlando Sentinel as well as Georgia Specialist for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern University graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old who turned minds at USA monitor and industry trials in June, will definitely have the chance to carry out the very same at the Olympics on Friday, a resource verified to ESPN.The Maryland native are going to be part of the men's 4x400-meter relay team that morning when it takes part in the opening heat energy of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson manages in the 4x400 meter relay on Friday, he is going to become the youngest American male to have actually ever before taken part in an Olympic keep track of as well as area activity. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the monitor inside the Stade de France, Wilson will end up being the youngest American man to have ever joined an Olympic keep track of and also industry event.In July, Wilson mentioned he was actually jubilated when he obtained term that would certainly be actually included in the Crew United States relay swimming pool after he didn't qualify for the private 400-meter dashboard at trials." When I got the call, I was like, I was actually ecstatic," Wilson mentioned. "I started running around your house. It was actually simply a second for me due to the fact that everyone fantasizes concerning going to the Olympics as a younger kid." Publisher's Picks1 RelatedWilson said he to begin with began hoping about participating in the Games in the course of the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was 8 years of ages. That very same year, he started running his premier event, the 400, and also has ended up being an interject it.After twice cracking the occasion's under-18 globe file while at U.S. tests, managing it in as little bit of time as 44.59 seconds, Wilson went also lesser three weeks earlier at a tuneup competition in Florida. Certainly there, he managed a 44.20-second time that possessed the track globe humming in apprehension of what he might perform on American relay teams once the Olympics arrived.Now, his possibility is actually here.