Patrick Anderson: London

London Dept: Seeing as it was an Olympic year, let's start with London. IOC president Jacques Rogge called them the "happy and glorious Games." If such an event can be called normal, then London can, following as it did the sad legacy of the Athens Games drug scandals, facilities in disrepair and the over-the-top, efficient Beijing Olympics. And with no publicly known security scares for the Games that were awarded to the city the day before twin transit bombings in 2005, according to CBC. Wheelchair basketball star Patrick Anderson of Fergus, Ont., came out of retirement after three years to score 34 points in the Paralympics' gold-medal final win over Australia. Canada avenged a 2008 final loss to the Aussies in the process, and the result gave Anderson a career total of three gold and a silver after wins in 2000 and 2004 and here's a look at some of the praiseworthy and positive sports stories of 2012, the type that by and large couldn't be predicted and which didn't necessarily appear on the stat sheet or scoreboard. Year in Review Athlete of the year Team of the year Quotes of the year 10 most influential The year in pictures Heroes a villains Top 10 stories Olympian efforts Oscar Pistorius was one of the bigger stories in London, becoming the first amputee sprinter to compete in able-bodied Olympics. The gold winner in that 400-metre event, Grenadian teen Kirani James, was inspired enough by "The Blade Runner" to ask the South African to swap bibs. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.