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Eddie Tolan, a Common card
Thomas Edward Tolan, nicknamed the "Midnight Express", was an American track and field athlete who competed in sprints.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 82
- Power
- 152
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,600
Power 152 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Eddie Tolan quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Eddie Tolan card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He set world ______ in the 100-yard dash and 100 meters event and Olympic records in the 100 meters and 200 meters events.
Answer
records. He set world records in the 100-yard dash and 100 meters event and Olympic records in the 100 meters and 200 meters events. From the Eddie Tolan article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He was the first non-Euro-American to receive the title of the "world's fastest human" after winning gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters events at the ____ Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Answer
1930s. He was the first non-Euro-American to receive the title of the "world's fastest human" after winning gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters events at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. From the Eddie Tolan article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He set world records in the 100-yard dash and 100 meters event and Olympic records in the 100 meters and 200 meters events.
- He was the first non-Euro-American to receive the title of the "world's fastest human" after winning gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters events at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
- In March 1935, Tolan won the 75, 100 and 220-yard events at the World Professional Sprint Championships in Melbourne to become the first man to win both the amateur and professional world sprint championships.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Eddie Tolan article was read about 7,600 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 82: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Eddie Tolan (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown (Keystone-France), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
