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Commonwealth gold and the firing squad
Brian Oliver, author of The Commonwealth Games: Extraordinary Stories Behind the Medals, explains why Nigeria's Emmanuel Ifeajuna, the first black African to win a gold medal, at the 1954 Commonwealth Games, was shot by firing squad.
(Photo: The Nigerian delegation during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Credit: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images)
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