 More than 3,000 athletes from 44 nations took part in the Games, of which only 135 were women, and 17 sports. The Games were estimated to cost 10 million French francs, the equivalent to $1.1 billion today, and crowds reached up to 60,000 daily. On 6 July, it was time for the first two rounds of the 100m sprint, Harold's event. Quite frankly, when I went to Paris in 1924,