In 1969, a plan to show support for an anti-racism protest turned the lives of 14 promising

black student athletes upside down.

Amazing sport stories from the BBC World Service tells their story.

Search for Amazing Sports Stories, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Welcome to Cairo, Egypt.

Picture the scene.

Because this is a program about pictures, about comics.

First, the skyline, apartment blocks, towers, minarets.

This city was once known for a thousand of them and yours stood at the very top of one of them

A sweep of winter sky birds rising falling in the foreground are rooftops littered with satellite dishes.

In the buildings beneath them, hidden, are people.

Ordinary people going about the ordinary days and looking down from up here as a man and a

warm jacket cap on his head sitting watching with a sketchbook.

Here we can see just a part of Kairn.

As we climb higher, you'll be able to see more areas,

and mosques such a singer and sillor and others. That's it. Let's go up. I'll just finish

this really quickly. This is comic artist Mohammed Weba.

Here are the domes of singer and silar mosques which I mentioned as we were climbing

up. From here you can see Islamic Cairo with its millards.

You can see Sultan Hassan and the Rifai Mosque here

the Taghribardi School,

Sabir Muabez up there,

Shagrathodur, the castle fort and Muhammad Ali mosque.

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