.Coley Harvey, ESPN Personnel WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Florida State for Orlando Guard and Georgia Specialist for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern Educational institution graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old that turned heads at U.S. keep track of and field tests in June, will definitely have the possibility to do the same at the Olympics on Friday, a source validated to ESPN.The Maryland native are going to belong to the males's 4x400-meter relay team that morning when it joins the position heat of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson runs in the 4x400 gauge relay on Friday, he will definitely end up being the youngest American man to have actually ever before taken part in an Olympic monitor and field activity. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the track inside the Stade de France, Wilson will end up being the youngest United States man to have actually ever before joined an Olympic track as well as industry event.In July, Wilson said he was actually pleased when he obtained term that would certainly be included in the Team United States relay swimming pool after he really did not get approved for the private 400-meter dash at tests." When I got decision, I resembled, I was happy," Wilson claimed. "I started running around the house. It was actually simply a minute for me due to the fact that everyone hopes regarding going to the Olympics as a youthful kid." Publisher's Picks1 RelatedWilson mentioned he to begin with started hoping about participating in the Gamings in the course of the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was 8 years old. That same year, he began running his premier celebration, the 400, as well as has actually ended up being an interject it.After two times damaging the activity's under-18 planet record while at united state tests, operating it in as little bit of time as 44.59 secs, Wilson went also lower three full weeks ago at a tuneup race in Fla. There, he ran a 44.20-second time that had the monitor world whiring in apprehension of what he can do on United States relay groups once the Olympics arrived.Now, his odds is listed here.