Feel Good Story of the Year 2016
Feel Good Story of the Year: Penny Oleksiak
This (previously) unknown 16 year-old Canadian swimmer won Olympic gold, silver and (2) bronze medals the old fashioned way – as an unpaid, unsponsored amateur that just loves her sport.
Runner Up: No elephants were hung over the course of an International Year of Pulses that has “bean” more about brain-dead leaders and their flatlining followers. Better still, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus retired all of their elephants from service on May 2nd of the year.
