Florian Mennigen, Gold medalist at the London 2012 Olympics with the German eight, fills out his checklist of life accomplishments. Next stop was today at Bellevue Palace, the German Whitehouse if you like. Today, President of Germany, Joachim Gauck honored the crew that made the old rowing nation of Germany back their pride after winning…

LDRC Board of Directors member Florian Mennigen, three time world champion (2009, 2010, 2011) and captain of the German rowing team is now an Olympic Gold Medalist! Our best wishes to Florian and his team. We’re honored to have one of the world’s fastest rowers as part of this project. See his bio here.

A fantastic piece about the LDRC’s efforts are in this week’s Wall St. Journal. Click here to read the story on the WSJ page, or see below: Intense efforts are now under way in New York and Iraq to create a rowing club in a place that isn’t sure it wants one, by men who…