.Coley Harvey, ESPN Staff WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Florida State for Orlando Guard and Georgia Tech for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern University graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old that switched minds at U.S. monitor as well as industry trials in June, will certainly have the possibility to do the exact same at the Olympics on Friday, a resource affirmed to ESPN.The Maryland local are going to belong to the guys's 4x400-meter relay crew that early morning when it participates in the position heat energy 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 actually ever before joined an Olympic track and field event. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the track inside the Stade de France, Wilson is going to come to be the youngest American guy to have ever before participated in an Olympic track as well as field event.In July, Wilson stated he was satisfied when he acquired word that will be included in the Staff U.S.A. relay pool after he really did not receive the individual 400-meter dashboard at trials." When I obtained the call, I was like, I was happy," Wilson stated. "I started running around your home. It was just a second for me since everybody fantasizes regarding heading to the Olympics as a young kid." Publisher's Picks1 RelatedWilson said he to begin with started fantasizing regarding taking part in the Games throughout the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was actually 8 years old. That same year, he began managing his premier occasion, the 400, and has actually come to be a force in it.After twice damaging the celebration's under-18 planet record while at USA tests, operating it in as little time as 44.59 few seconds, Wilson went even lower 3 full weeks earlier at a tuneup competition in Florida. Certainly there, he ran a 44.20-second time that had the keep track of globe buzzing in apprehension of what he could possibly carry out on United States relay staffs once the Olympics arrived.Now, his opportunity is actually right here.