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    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
    Iceland's Winter Olympics delegation has never produced a medal. The 2018 edition of the squad is seen here with their national flag at the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony.

    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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