Iceland Has Never Won A Winter Olympics Medal. It's Not Alone
Only 36 countries have ever won a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. For decades, dozens of other countries have seen their athletes return home empty-handed.
by Bill Chappell
Feb 14, 2018
3 minutes
Let's acknowledge at the outset that despite its name, Iceland can be brilliantly, beautifully green. But the country lies far north of the equator, and a small part of it has an ice cap. One Icelander even made waves this week for posting a photo of herself hanging out laundry in chest-deep snow.
So it may come as a surprise to learn that while Iceland has sent 75 athletes to the
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