Liu Guoliang's Birth Card: The 4 of Spades

In the record

Liu Guoliang (simplified Chinese: 刘国梁; traditional Chinese: 劉國梁; pinyin: Liú Guóliáng; born January 10, 1976) is a retired Chinese table tennis player. The birth-card coordinate for January 10 is the 4 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of Liu Guoliang's 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in table tennis.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in table tennis for People's Republic of China across 1996. 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 Liu Guoliang (Q555173), not a reading of character. 1996: gold in table tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics – men's doubles in table tennis. 1996: gold in table tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics – men's singles in table tennis.

• 1996 table tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics – men's doubles (table tennis)
• 1996 table tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics – men's singles (table tennis)

The 4 of Spades coordinate

Liu Guoliang was born January 10 (1976-01-10). Month 1 and day 10 give solar value 43, which is the 4 of Spades (The Rigid Truth). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1976 is unused. The 4 of Spades does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Liu Guoliang for People's Republic of China. Quoted system copy for the 4 of Spades, not a biography of Liu Guoliang: You build enough container that change can happen without the floor disappearing. You build frameworks for understanding truth. You're organized in your thinking, structured in your beliefs. Your mind thinks in terms of principles and rules.

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Liu Guoliang in the public record

He is the first Chinese male player to achieve a career grand slam of three majors (Olympic Games, World Cup, World Championships). He is considered by many to be one of the greatest players and coaches of all time. He has also played with Kong Linghui in doubles. Liu Guoliang was born in Xinxiang, Henan. He won two gold medals in the 1996 Summer Olympics, the men's singles and the men's doubles (with Kong Linghui), he won the men's singles in the 1996 World Cup, the World Doubles Championships in 1997 and 1999 with doubles partner Kong Linghui, and the 1999 World Singles Championships in Eindhoven. He was a member of the winning Chinese team in both the 1995 and 1997 World Table Tennis Team Championships. Liu retired after the 2001 season and was appointed as the head coach of China's National Men's Team at the age of 27. As the head coach of the Chinese Men's National Table Tennis Team he is the most successful coach in history with a team gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in addition to the medal sweep by Ma Lin, Wang Hao, and Wang Liqin.

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

Where the record meets the 4 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 Liu Guoliang, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Ability to create coherent belief systems

He is the first Chinese male player to achieve a career grand slam of three majors (Olympic Games, World Cup, World Championships).

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: olympic.

Also on the record

1. At the 2012 Summer Olympics the team won gold and Zhang Jike and Wang Hao won gold and silver medals respectively in the men's singles.
2. At the 2016 Summer Olympics the team again won gold and Ma Long and Zhang Jike won the gold and silver medals in the men's singles.
3. The Chinese team has also won every men's singles teams championships in the World Table Tennis Championships since Liu became head coach; a period spanning from 2001 to 2018.
4. On December 1, 2018, Liu was elected as president of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, replacing Cai Zhenhua.

Other multi-gold Summer Olympians with this card

• Ann Curtis — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
• Brad Schumacher — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming, water polo
• Conor Dwyer — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
• Andrew Hoy — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in equestrian sport
• Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in diving
• Ferenc Németh — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in modern pentathlon
• Vincenzo Maenza — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in amateur wrestling

FAQ

What is Liu Guoliang's birth card?

The 4 of Spades. January 10 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Liu Guoliang'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 Liu Guoliang's dates and medals come from?

Birth date 1976-01-10 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Liu Guoliang, 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 (2 Summer Olympic gold medals in table tennis) 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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