Sierra Leone have competed in nine Commonwealth Games, first attending in 1958. They did not attend in 1962 or 1974, then took a twelve-year break between 1978 and 1990. They have not yet won a Commonwealth Games medal.
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“Was I not born in this Realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country?... Is not my Kingdom here? Whom have I oppressed? Whom have I enriched to other’s harm? What turmoil have I made to this Commonwealth that I should be suspected to have no regard of the same?”
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