text:  Meanwhile, 28-year-old tennis player Kitty McCain from London was also preparing to compete. As she told the BBC in 1987, she was good friends with Harold. I knew Harold Abrahams, yes, very well. He was a family friend. He was great fun and he was very amusing and entertaining. Kitty had just won Wimbledon that month, July 1924. But like Harold, she didn't take the Olympics too seriously. Which is just as well, really, as it wasn't especially lucrative.