On May 5, 1934, five years to the day from Komonen's arrival in Canada, he filed naturalization papers, aiming to compete in the 1934 British Empire Games in London.
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Hong Kong competed at the Commonwealth Games (as well as British Empire & Commonwealth Games and British Commonwealth Games) as a British colony or dependent territory in 1934, then from 1954 until 1962 and from 1970 to 1994.
The country had taken part in the Commonwealth Games from the second games in 1934: first as Rhodesia, then Southern Rhodesia, then Rhodesia and Nyasaland, then Zimbabwe.