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Meet the Nations That Have Never Won an Olympic Medal (and Two That Just Did)

Gold medals in track and field brought St. Lucia and Dominica into an exclusive club of nations. But for 66 other countries and territories, the wait for an Olympic medal goes on, and on, and on.

Julien Alfred’s gold medal in the women’s 100 meters on Saturday was her country’s first Olympic medal.Credit...Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times

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By James Wagner and Jeré Longman

Reporting from Paris and Saint-Denis, France

If it feels like the same countries are winning most of the Olympic medals every two years, that’s because it’s largely true.