Meet Quincy Wilson — the Olympic gold medalist with high school homework to finish
Quincy Wilson, 16, made history in Paris this summer as the youngest male U.S. track Olympian in history. But unlike his teammates, he's still years away from graduation.
POTOMAC, Md. — He may be the youngest male track and field Olympic gold medalist ever, but Quincy Wilson won’t stop talking about his anatomy class.
“I like studying the muscles and knowing the way my body works,” Wilson, 16, told NBC News. “I have a lot of things that I need to track like dorsiflex in my foot. I need to know how I’m putting my foot down in the ground, how I’m going to be able to get fast.”
Wilson, a junior at the Bullis School in suburban Washington D.C., is already plenty fast. During the summer, he broke the under-18 world record in the 400-meter dash that stood for 42 years. That time lasted just one day — when he broke it again.
He later competed as a member of the 4x400 relay team that took top honors in the Paris Games.
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