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Lasse Virén's Birth Card: The 6 of Clubs

4 Summer Olympic gold medals in athletics

Born July 22, 1949

Finland

The Nurturing Creator

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

Lasse Artturi Virén (born 22 July 1949) is a Finnish former long-distance runner, winner of four gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics. The birth-card coordinate for July 22 is the 6 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Lasse Virén's 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in athletics.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in athletics for Finland across 1972 and 1976. 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 Lasse Virén (Q52611), not a reading of character. 1972: gold in athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – men's 10,000 metres in athletics. 1972: gold in athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – men's 5000 metres in athletics. 1976: gold in athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – men's 10,000 metres in athletics. 1976: gold in athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – men's 5000 metres in athletics.

The 6 of Clubs coordinate

Lasse Virén was born July 22 (1949-07-22). Month 7 and day 22 give solar value 19, which is the 6 of Clubs (The Nurturing Creator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1949 is unused. The 6 of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Lasse Virén for Finland. Quoted system copy for the 6 of Clubs, not a biography of Lasse Virén: You pass on what you know without disappearing behind the lesson. You have knowledge and a natural urge to share it. You think best when you're helping someone else understand. Your mind is oriented toward wisdom.

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Lasse Virén in the public record

Virén recaptured the image of the "Flying Finns" promoted by runners like Hannes Kolehmainen, Paavo Nurmi and Ville Ritola in the 1920s. He was elected Finnish Sportsman of the Year in 1972 and 1976 and later became a politician and a member of Finland's parliament in 1999–2007 and 2010–2011. Virén began his running career in the United States at Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. Virén ran on the Varsity Cross-Country team for BYU for one season, before returning home to his native Finland. A police officer from Myrskylä, Virén debuted on the international scene in 1971. His performances at the 1971 European Championships in Helsinki were overshadowed by fellow Finn Juha Väätäinen, who captured gold medals in both the 5,000 and 10,000 metres events with Virén settling for modest seventh and 17th placings, respectively. According to Virén himself and his coach, Rolf Haikkola, Virén could have placed better in the 1971 European Athletics Championships, if he had done the "emptying exercise" of his system earlier – according to Haikkola, he followed the Finnish Athletics Federation's leaders' bad advice – and if he hadn't been pushed almost to the point of falling at the start of the last lap in the 5,000 metres final. The "emptying exercise" of top runners means that they push their bodies to a total exhaustion or lack of energy so that their bodies can again receive much energy, and so that they can repeat their top race performances.

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

Where the record meets the Ace of Clubs

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 Lasse Virén, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Lasse Virén'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 start a new idea while it is still usable, and you let it meet the world unfinished.

A♣ — Life Spread — Neptune, fixed to the 6♣, from the published Ace of Clubs meaning

Buoyed by a brutal training regimen in Thomson's Falls, Kenya, and very impressive results, which included the smashing of the 2-mile world record and wins against Great Britain and Spain in a meet held in Helsinki in the summer of 1972, Lasse Virén entered the Munich Games as a dark horse.

Paired on shared wording: meet, world. This line comes from the Neptune position of the 6♣'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

  1. Shortly after those European Championships, he broke Väätäinen's fresh Finnish record at 5,000 metres.
  2. Buoyed by a brutal training regimen in Thomson's Falls, Kenya, and very impressive results, which included the smashing of the 2-mile world record and wins against Great Britain and Spain in a meet held in Helsinki in the summer of 1972, Lasse Virén entered the Munich Games as a dark horse.
  3. At the 1972 Summer Olympics at Munich, Virén won both the 5,000 and the 10,000 metres events.
  4. At the 10,000 metres final held on 3 September, Virén broke Ron Clarke's seven-year-old world record despite falling in the twelfth lap after getting tangled with Emiel Puttemans.

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FAQ

What is Lasse Virén's birth card?
The 6 of Clubs. July 22 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Lasse Virén'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 Lasse Virén's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1949-07-22 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Lasse Virén, 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 (4 Summer Olympic gold medals in athletics) 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 (Q52611; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Lasse Virén; infobox match). Birth date 1949-07-22 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.