.Coley Harvey, ESPN Personnel WriterAug 8, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClosePreviously covered Fla Condition for Orlando Sentinel and also Georgia Technology for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern University graduatePARIS-- Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old who switched minds at USA track and area tests in June, will have the option to do the exact same at the Olympics on Friday, a source confirmed to ESPN.The Maryland local will definitely become part of the males's 4x400-meter relay staff that early morning when it participates in the position heat of the Olympic relay.When Quincy Wilson operates in the 4x400 gauge relay on Friday, he is going to end up being the youngest American man to have actually ever before participated in an Olympic monitor and also field event. Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesWhen he takes the monitor inside the Stade de France, Wilson is going to end up being the youngest United States guy to have ever joined an Olympic monitor as well as area event.In July, Wilson mentioned he was jubilated when he received phrase that would be added to the Staff U.S.A. relay pool after he didn't qualify for the personal 400-meter dash at trials." When I got decision, I resembled, I was actually overjoyed," Wilson claimed. "I started running around your house. It was simply a second for me because everybody hopes concerning heading to the Olympics as a young kid." Publisher's Picks1 RelatedWilson claimed he initially began fantasizing concerning participating in the Games throughout the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he was 8 years of ages. That same year, he started running his premier celebration, the 400, and also has actually ended up being an interject it.After two times breaking the celebration's under-18 globe document while at U.S. tests, operating it in as little bit of opportunity as 44.59 secs, Wilson went also lesser 3 weeks ago at a tuneup race in Florida. Certainly there, he managed a 44.20-second time that possessed the keep track of globe whiring in apprehension of what he could possibly do on American relay teams once the Olympics arrived.Now, his possibility is actually here.