 The National Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland sent the nation's third largest delegation to the Games, with a total of 28 athletes, 22 men and 6 women, to compete in 6 sports, including men's handball, the nation's only team-based sport at these Olympic games.Javelin thrower and Olympic hopeful Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir was Iceland's first female flag bearer at the opening ceremony since 2000.Iceland, however, failed to win a single Olympic medal in London, after the men's national handball team, silver medalists from Beijing, lost to Hungary in the quarterfinal round.