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Tom Dolan's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born September 15, 1975

United States

The Humanitarian Builder

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

Thomas Fitzgerald Dolan (born September 15, 1975) is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. The birth-card coordinate for September 15 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Tom Dolan's 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for United States across 1996 and 2000. 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 Tom Dolan (Q920578), not a reading of character. 1996 1996 Summer Olympics: gold in 1996 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1996: gold in swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – men's 400 metre individual medley in competitive swimming. 2000 2000 Summer Olympics: gold in 2000 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 2000: gold in swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – men's 400 metre individual medley in competitive swimming.

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Tom Dolan was born September 15 (1975-09-15). Month 9 and day 15 give solar value 22, which is the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1975 is unused. The 9 of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Tom Dolan for United States. Quoted system copy for the 9 of Clubs, not a biography of Tom Dolan: You keep the large view without skipping the next practical step. Your thoughts are about humanity, progress, and possibility. You think in big pictures and universal principles. Your mind is oriented toward uplift.

Live 9 of Clubs meaning page

Tom Dolan in the public record

Dolan was born September 15, 1975 in Arlington, Virginia and attended Yorktown High School, where he was a swimming team standout. Dolan needed to overcome childhood asthma, which impacted his swimming by 12, sometimes causing him to lose consciousness during his college workouts. In High School, he swam for Head Coach Rick Curl of the Curl-Burke Swim Club, later known as the Nation's Capital Swim Club. He attended the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he swam for coach Jon Urbanchek's Michigan Wolverines swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1994 to 1997. During his college swimming career, he won individual NCAA national championships in the 500-yard freestyle (1995, 1996), 1,650-yard freestyle (1995, 1996), and 400-yard individual medley (1995, 1996), and was a member of three of Michigan's winning teams in the 800-yard freestyle relay (1994, 1995, 1996). Dolan represented the United States at two consecutive Summer Olympics. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, he won a gold medal in the men's 400-meter individual medley, finishing with a time 4:14.90. He also competed in the men's 200-meter individual medley, placing seventh in the event final with a time 2:03.89.

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

Where the record meets the 9 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 Tom Dolan, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Tom Dolan'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.

Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective

9♣ — Birth Card, from the published 9 of Clubs meaning

In High School, he swam for Head Coach Rick Curl of the Curl-Burke Swim Club, later known as the Nation's Capital Swim Club.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: coach.

Also on the record

  1. Four years later at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, Dolan again won a gold medal in the men's 400-meter individual medley, and setting a new world record of 4:11.76 in the final.
  2. He also received the silver medal for his second-place performance in the men's 200-meter individual medley (1:59.77).
  3. Dolan was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 2006, and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.
  4. He has operated the Tom Dolan Swim School in Northern Virginia, teaching infants to adults fundamentals that are essential for water safety, recreational swimming, and competitive swimming.

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FAQ

What is Tom Dolan's birth card?
The 9 of Clubs. September 15 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Tom Dolan'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 Tom Dolan's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1975-09-15 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Tom Dolan, 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 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 (Q920578; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Tom Dolan (swimmer); infobox match). Birth date 1975-09-15 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.