Quincy Wilson HUMILIATED on 4x4!

It would have been a lot smarter to have run him in the heat of Mixed 4x400m. Much lower key and less pressure.

How much of a failure in life does a person have to be to take apparent glee in a 16 YO who tried his best having a poor performance? He ran poorly compared to what was expected and it's OK to acknowledge that but it's a sign of some serious personal issues to delight in his subpar performance.

Don’t you know that’s the whole reason letsrun is here, to tear people down. It’s amazing what’s been said about runners I know in the high school part of board

I can only imagine. I only frequent this board during the Worlds and Olympics; I couldn't take a steady diet of the nonsense.

The only lesson that I hope he learned is that it’s ok to recuse yourself if you have a problem. You don’t need to try be a hero. It’s ok to say you’re not ready to go.

I think it's a bit of column A and a bit of column B. Season was def too long as he's been racing since probably january at least but also in high school your schedule revolves around racing once or twice a week if not more. So, not tremendously surprising that he didn't look as amazing as usual, he hadn't raced in a while. But i think the number one to remember is that he's only 16. At 16, I would get nervous before regular meets, you put me or any 16 year old at the olympics, you're bound to get some nerves which can affect your performance. The kid's gonna be great and he's gonna learn a ton from this.

I am already confused between Quincy Hall and this Quincy.

Almost as confused as I was between Antonio McKay and Tony McQuay.

So now SHUT UP!!!! THEY WON THE GOLD!! They had to keep him ready, just in case and it worked out!!!

He didn’t humiliate himself at all. This post is filled with a bunch of middle age men who run long distance because they have no turn over speed. Anybody who actually ran track, not just watched it, and was fast enough to be on the 4x400 knows that the first leg is the longest and toughest leg. The coach should have never put their most inexperience runner on that leg. Quincy deserved to be on the relay he just should have been put on a leg that played to his strengths such as second or third. You old men are hating on a 16 year old Olympic Gold Medalist.

A little humility never killed a 16-year-old Gold Medalist. Win-win for the great Quincy Wilson!

You don't understand how this works apparently. He didn't run the final and the alternate ran in his place, where they secure the gold. So it was no harm, no foul.

Some of you asshats need to get a life. Tearing down a 16 year old track prodigy says a lot about who you are as people.

Matthew Boling got robbed.

Nah. Boling had his chance. Three of them. He ran .2 slower than Quincy in the first round, then again in the semis, then again in the finals.

But sure, Boling would have run better than 47.3 at the Olympics! Quincy ended up with one of the worst gold-medal performances in US men's track history. At least recent history. Such is fortune.

how'd that work out then?

Imagine a 16 year old having an off race in the Olympics! The dude is will have a life of Olympic races to blow your mind!

It was certainly a poor performance, but hopefully he learns from it - that he'll have off days, how to deal with pressure, how to regroup and do better. He earned his relay pool spot; they chose to run him, so he ran. At 16, he's not of mind to say "well, I'm young and inexperienced and maybe it would be better not to run me." And he probably didn't see himself running that poorly. It's unfortunate that he had a poor performance, but it happens, and the US recovered and then won a thrilling final. And Wilson gets gold.

he's fast enough to get an olympic gold for his contribution to the team while you sit in your mom's basement watching him ya loser

Probably was the difference between an OR and a WR. I don’t blame him though. Coaches should have noticed he was off during warmup.

you make it sound like humility is a bad thing

anyway, they still won their heat and gold in the final. i'd say this was the ideal opening Olympic experience for Quincy

his time in Paris will have reinforced that you can only hold a peak so long, you have to appreciate the good days knowing bad days are always around the corner, and most of all this made it clear that even when you have a bad day so long as you don't give up you can still win and he will be extremely motivated to keep improving and working on his craft

i suspect he'll look back at the end of his career and point to that relay leg as one of the best things that ever happened to him