Bernard Lagat, running in a fifth Olympics aged 41, will hold it down for the quadragenarians, while the delegation's youngest member, a 16-year-old table-tennis whiz named Kanak Jha, will attempt to make history in one of the few events where the US has never medaled.
Haiti has never medaled in Olympic boxing.
"Off-road racing is massively important to British Cycling, not only as an organisation but as a safe environment for people to ride in, but we've never medalled there.
Australia's women's basketball team have won silver at the past three Olympics, while their male counterparts have never won medal.
The men have never won a medal.
Americans have never won a medal in Nordic combined.
The problem is that British Triathlon have never had a medal at the Olympic Games and they're really looking for medallists.
American women have never won a medal at 1,500 meters since it was added to the Olympic program at the 1972 Games in Munich.
They're at their most enriching when you gaze outward from the well-lighted American consciousness and into all the wrong places, even toward the countries that have never won a medal.
From him, I learned that Bangladesh is the most heavily populated country to have never won a medal, that Madagascar's achievements pale into insignificance compared to its indirect association with Madagascar the CGI cartoon, and that Kiribati has no regularly scheduled flights to Honolulu.
