Alexander Bolshunov's Birth Card: The Joker

In the record

Alexander Bolshunov: Alexander Alexandrovich Bolshunov (Russian: Александр Александрович Большунов, also tr. Alexander Bolshunov (Q28833098, slug alexander-bolshunov) is on Wikipedia’s 8+ Winter Olympic medalists table for Cross-country under Olympic Athletes from Russia / ROC, with a published row of Alexander Bolshunov: 9 Winter Olympic medals (3 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze). None of those 9 medals set Alexander Bolshunov’s card. December 31 / 1996-12-31 does: the Joker (Joker).

Winter Olympic medal row

Alexander Bolshunov’s list row is 3 gold / 4 silver / 2 bronze in Cross-country. That 9-medal line is why alexander-bolshunov is in the catalog and why a one-event specialist with fewer than eight Winter medals has no page here. Olympic Athletes from Russia / ROC is the nation cell on that row. It is not a second birthday and it is not fed into the solar formula. Only December 31 is mapped. The year 1996 printed on Alexander Bolshunov is unused for Alexander Bolshunov.

• Alexander Bolshunov gold count: 3
• Alexander Bolshunov silver count: 4
• Alexander Bolshunov bronze count: 2
• Alexander Bolshunov Winter Olympic total: 9

How December 31 becomes the Joker

For alexander-bolshunov, solar_value = 55 − (2 × month + day) is evaluated with month 12 and day 31. 55 − (2 × 12 + 31) = 0 for Alexander Bolshunov. Alexander Bolshunov lands on the Joker boundary because December 31 is December 31. pipeline.birthcard (D1) emits Joker here, not King of Spades. A reader looking up Q28833098 should treat this as a calendar pin for December 31, not a verdict on Olympic Athletes from Russia / ROC or Cross-country. alexander-bolshunov is the only path segment for this athlete; Alexander Bolshunov is the article title; Joker is the computed coordinate.

Year unused. December 31 is the Joker.

The Joker coordinate

Alexander Bolshunov maps to Joker / The Joker: The December 31 Birth Card on December 31. Quoted only as the published joker coordinate line, not as a Cross-country reading of Alexander Bolshunov: In a common year, 364 dates map to one of the 52 cards and December 31 resolves to the Joker. A leap year adds February 29, which maps normally to the 9 of Clubs. We state both edge cases plainly — the system is more useful when the public explanation matches the calculator.

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Alexander Bolshunov in the public record

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bolshunov; born 31 December 1996) is a Russian cross-country skier and two-time winner of the 14th and 15th Tour de Ski. Bolshunov is a nine-time Olympic medalist, three of which are gold, and is also the first male post-Soviet Russian World Cup champion, winning the overall World Cup in 2020 and 2021. Bolshunov was born in Podyvotye in the Bryansk Oblast, located just several kilometres from the Russia-Ukraine border. It was there where he started his sports career with his coach and father Alexander Ivanovich Bolshunov. In 2011, his father brought him to the Bryansk sports school for ski-cross skiing, where he was coached by Merited Coach of Russia N. I. Nekhitrov. The first victories on nationals came when on 6 February 2013 Bolshunov took the first place in 10 km classic in a tournament taking place in the Tver Oblast.

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

Also on the record

1. On 17 March 2014, Bolshunov won the 20 km skiathlon event at the Russian Junior Nationals, resulting Bolshunov being bestowed the honorary Master of Sports of Russia.
2. After the nationals he was invited to the junior team.
3. A year later, he participated in the sprint event of the FIS Junior World Ski Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan, but failed to qualify for the sprint final, leaving him without medals.
4. In the following Youth Championships in Rasnov, Romania, his best result was 2nd, in the relay event.

Other 8+ Winter medalists with this card

• No other 8+ Winter Olympic medalist in this set shares the Joker.

FAQ

What is Alexander Bolshunov’s birth card?

Alexander Bolshunov’s card is the Joker. December 31 (1996-12-31) maps through the public formula; Q28833098 does not change the month-day math.

Does Alexander Bolshunov’s birth card predict Winter Olympic medals?

No. Alexander Bolshunov: 9 Winter Olympic medals (3 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze) is a list fact about Cross-country. The Joker only names December 31 for alexander-bolshunov.

Where do Alexander Bolshunov’s dates come from?

Alexander Bolshunov’s birth date 1996-12-31 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date on Alexander Bolshunov, verified against Wikidata P569 1996-12-31 (Q28833098, CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). Those two alexander-bolshunov sources match (match). A year-only infobox or a Q28833098 conflict would have dropped Alexander Bolshunov, not invented a day. The 8+ list catalogued Alexander Bolshunov; it did not supply 1996-12-31. Hooks for alexander-bolshunov come from the Wikipedia REST summary at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bolshunov (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why is Alexander Bolshunov in this set and not every Winter Olympic medalist?

Alexander Bolshunov is on the Wikipedia 8+ table with 9 medals. Alexander Bolshunov stays because that table lists the athlete and both the infobox and Wikidata P569 (Q28833098) publish 1996-12-31.

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