.Coley Harvey, ESPN Personnel WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Florida State for Orlando Sentinel and also Georgia Technology for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern Educational institution graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old that turned minds at U.S. monitor and also industry tests in June, will have the chance to perform the same at the Olympics on Friday, a resource confirmed to ESPN.The Maryland native will certainly become part of the men's 4x400-meter relay staff that early morning when it participates in the opening warm of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson operates in the 4x400 gauge relay on Friday, he is going to come to be the youngest American male to have ever before joined an Olympic monitor and also industry activity. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the track inside the Stade de France, Wilson is going to become the youngest American guy to have actually ever joined an Olympic monitor and field event.In July, Wilson claimed he was thrilled when he acquired word that would certainly be actually added to the Group USA relay pool after he really did not get the specific 400-meter dashboard at tests." When I obtained the call, I resembled, I was happy," Wilson pointed out. "I started running around our home. It was actually just a second for me since everyone dreams regarding going to the Olympics as a youthful little one." Publisher's Picks1 RelatedWilson stated he first started hoping about taking part in the Games throughout the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was actually 8 years old. That same year, he began operating his premier celebration, the 400, as well as has come to be a force in it.After twice damaging the celebration's under-18 world file while at U.S. trials, running it in as little time as 44.59 few seconds, Wilson went also lower 3 full weeks earlier at a tuneup competition in Florida. There certainly, he operated a 44.20-second opportunity that had the monitor globe buzzing in expectancy of what he could carry out on United States relay teams once the Olympics arrived.Now, his chance is actually below.