Olympic moment at Row for the Cure on the Chattahoochee

Row for the Cure on the Chattahoochee gained a bit more luster of the golden variety when an Olympic Gold Medalist arrived.

The first Row for the Cure on the Chattahoochee Saturday, Sept. 20 was a joint effort between all of the local rowing club who share the river. Located across the street from the Atlanta Rowing Club (ARC, an adult rowing club) teams of volunteers prepared hot dogs and hamburgers for the hungry rowers as they came off the water to picnic under the shady pavilion.

According to Kathy Shields, it was one of those beautiful days when you think, "things just don't get any better than this" until the Atlanta Junior Rowing Club's Varsity Women's Coach Julie McQueen introduced her friend from the University of Virginia, Lindsay Shoop. who was on the gold medal winning Olympic Rowing team.

Shoop's women's 8 boat tool first place at the Summer Olympics in China.She generously passed around the medal as the AJRA rowers and posed for pictures.

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