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Doug Russell's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born February 20, 1946

United States

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A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Olympic medal.

In the record

Douglas Albert Russell (born February 20, 1946) is an American former competitive swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in three different events. The birth-card coordinate for February 20 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Doug Russell's 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for United States across 1968. Only Summer Games gold medals count here. Winter-only careers and single-gold athletes are out of this pack. The medal list is a public award record for Doug Russell (Q1252486), not a reading of character. 1968 1968 Summer Olympics: gold in 1968 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1968: gold in swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – men's 100 metre butterfly in competitive swimming. 1968: gold in swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay in competitive swimming.

The 5 of Diamonds coordinate

Doug Russell was born February 20 (1946-02-20). Month 2 and day 20 give solar value 31, which is the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1946 is unused. The 5 of Diamonds does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Doug Russell for United States. Quoted system copy for the 5 of Diamonds, not a biography of Doug Russell: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed. You crave variety in resources and experiences. You get bored with one income stream, one investment, one way of working. You need novelty and freedom in your material life.

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Doug Russell in the public record

Russell was born in New York City, but raised in Midland, Texas. He swam for Midland High School, in the new 50-meter "Alamo" pool built by the city in 1962. It was later renamed in his honor: the "Douglas Russell Swimming Pool." He was an all-around swimmer in high school—swimming competitively in butterfly, backstroke, and individual medley events. Swimmers of his era remember him as a tough competitor who was hard to beat but brought out the best in those around him. He attended The University of Texas at Arlington, where he swam for coach Don Easterling's UT Arlington Mavericks swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. He also swam for SMU Hall of Fame coach Red Barr, who coached the Pepsi Swim Club in Dallas and was an alternate coach for the 1968 Summer Olympics which Russell attended. Doug Russell Park, part of the southern edge of the UT Arlington campus, is named in his honor. At the 1967 Pan American Games, he won a gold medal in the 200-meter individual medley.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Doug Russell (swimmer) (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 2 of Spades

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Doug Russell, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Doug Russell's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.

You hold two pressures at once and still make a call that can live in the world.

2♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement, fixed to the 5♦, from the published 2 of Spades meaning

Douglas Albert Russell (born February 20, 1946) is an American former competitive swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in three different events.

Paired on shared wording: holder, world.

Also on the record

  1. He won an NCAA national championship in the 100-yard butterfly in 1968, and Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) national outdoor title in the 100-meter butterfly.
  2. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Russell won the first-ever gold medal awarded in the men's 100-meter butterfly—an event which made its debut at the 1968 Olympics–in an upset over teammate and favorite Mark Spitz.
  3. He won another gold medal swimming the butterfly leg for the winning U.S. team in the 4×100-meter medley relay.
  4. Russell, together with relay teammates Charlie Hickcox (backstroke), Don McKenzie (breaststroke), and Ken Walsh (freestyle), set a new world record of 3:54.9 in the event final.

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FAQ

What is Doug Russell's birth card?
The 5 of Diamonds. February 20 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Doug Russell's year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict Olympic medals?
No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast races, medals, character, or fate.
Where do Doug Russell's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1946-02-20 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Doug Russell, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Medal count (3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming) comes from Wikidata P1344 event claims with P166 Olympic gold, limited to Summer Games. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Wikidata CC0 (Q1252486; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Doug Russell (swimmer); infobox match). Birth date 1946-02-20 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.