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Quincy Wilson’s life is moving quickly, and his days are busy. But as one of the fastest teenagers in the world, he is used to catching up with this kind of whirlwind.
Six months have passed since Wilson won Relay Gold as a 16 -year -old Olympics in Paris, and became the youngest male track and field champion in history. It already feels like a distant memory. When he returns to the indoor race, his feet are firmly gas.
“I’m back to work,” Wilson told CNN sports. “I don’t have a gold medal. I don’t keep it in mind. When I’m practicing, I’m worried about my future goals. There is nothing in the past. I went and did what I did. Cannot be changed.
Wilson is still a high school student, despite his almost certain boyish smile. He has never graduated from Bris School in Maryland until next year, and has been pursuing his sports ambition along with lessons and homework.
In other words, you get up every day at 5 am and get on the bus at around 6:15 and arrive at school at 7:30. “Do you like early in the morning? No, Wilson says,” But I have to do what I have to do. ”
The school’s whole day continues, and then he practices on a truck from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm, and then goes home to prepare for more studies and the next day’s test. Last year, the fastest 400 -meter runner in the world.
But studying is the most important study for him.
“I think I’m more concentrated in the classroom than in a truck. It can tell you a lot,” he explains. “My average performance is already average throughout this semester. In my life, I think I’m all average, so nothing has changed.”
He is ongoing in an anatomy, physiology, and before the preceding calculation, and is on the progress of examining how the building has been reinforced to endure various kinds of earthquakes. He is eager to talk about engineering projects.
“I don’t take classes like PE,” says Wilson with a smile. “I have all classes in the 11th grade.”
He hasn’t made a decision at the first choice university yet, but “great athletics, great scholars, great teammates, great support -great staff come somewhere in all great staff” I want.
For now, Wilson’s attention is in the indoor season and travels on the east coast using his weekend. He defeated a 400 -meter indoor high school record last weekend, recorded about 45.66 seconds on two laps, and races on Saturdays at Mill Rose Game in New York City 600 meters.
Wilson was able to target another record because his name was already recorded this year. Will Samunner’s 600m record 1:15.58 -Mill Rose Game includes reducing the time in about 2 seconds since last year.
“I’m just trying to do my best. Looking at 1:15 on the clock, I’m very EC,” he says. “But for now, my goal is to avoid trucks and be with everyone in the race.”
Considering his young age and incredible promises, his recently acquired Olympic gold medalist will definitely attract attention to Wilson’s performance this season.
He gained fame in the US Olympic Trial last year, destroyed the 400m world record under the age of 18, and finished sixth in the finals. Although it was not enough for the team’s individual spots, Wilson won the location of the relay pool and became the youngest American who competed in athletics in the Olympics.
A few weeks after setting a record of 44.2 seconds under the age of 44.2 seconds, he was far from the best and finished 7th at the end of the first leg with a 4x400m relay heat. However, Wilson, Bernon No Wood, Blythe Dedmon, and Christopher Bailey’s US team still secured a spot in the finals and gained gold because the hurdle specialists, Lebenjamin, were exchanged for a team.
Running on the heat is enough to win a medal of Wilson, and recently revealed that he had been injured in a hamstring shortly after winning the Olympic team. Nevertheless, despite the fact that he is running much later than the trial, he explains his Olympic experience as “the dreams come true” and “the best that can happen to me.”
The rest of Wilson’s summer was featured in the engagement and invitations, but it is still thick and fast today. He met Jay Z, visited college, and went to baseball and soccer games around Baltimore. He, a huge fan of Ravens, spent his time at the team’s facility, taking pictures with the quarterback Lamar Jackson, and gave a talented cleat with a wide receiver ZAY flower.
In another life, Wilson may have been thinking about a career in NFL. He was a major scorer of his high school team in the year of the new student, and decided to focus only on tracks only at the age of 15.
“Man, I miss soccer very much,” he says. “If I can play soccer right now, I will do it. If they invite me to a Super Bowl in the biggest truck tournament, I honestly don’t know which one to choose.
“I grew up with soccer and running tracks. I knew what I wanted to do, and that was difficult -I want to go back (soccer), so I I just want to go out and throw a lot of things.
Regarding Ravens, Wilson said that when Mark Andrew dropped two points conversion in Game Thailand in a recent defeat of the team, he was “almost crying.”
“We’re approaching the Super Bowl,” he added. “You will meet us a few years later. I tell you.”
Incredibly, Wilson was only four years old during the last Super Bowl in Ravens in 2012. Since then, he has grown into one of his most exciting young athletes, and has already opposed an experienced enemy and assaults.
Meanwhile, he remained focused on the rapidly tracked rising to a senior race. Competition is higher and competition may be intense, but the basic act of completing one wrap on the running truck is still the same.
“They put a spike like me,” says Wilson. “We are lined up in the same way. I get the same block. So I feel there is nothing wrong. You’re 6’10, I’m 4’11.” Maybe you have to run at the end of the day and run together.
“You will see many 16 years old, such as” Yes, I’m going to beat you. ” But for me, I can’t beat anyone. I’m ready to fight the line. ”
5’9 “, Wilson is almost short, not physically developed. It’s a way he runs. He tilts his head and his arm flaps on his side. It is almost a conventional form for a sprinter.
However, the destruction of the type is also part of Wilson, the center of his two -minute method between elite runners and high school students. He is part of Olympian and gold medalists and is part of a boy who knows when to do homework and when to obtain a driver’s license.
Currently, Wilson is putting a license on hold. But in the past 12 months, he remembered that “you are a child, your 16 -year -old children are doing a lot of cool things that teenagers are doing.”
In the athletics world, many Olympic gold medalists could not say it.
