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Sean Kelly, an Uncommon card
John James 'Sean' Kelly is an Irish former professional road bicycle racer, one of the most successful road cyclists of the 1980s, and one of the finest Classics riders of all time.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 88
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 184
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 89,000
Power 184 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Sean Kelly quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Sean Kelly card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Kelly won one Grand Tour, the 1988 Vuelta a España, and four green jerseys in the Tour de ______.
Answer
France. Kelly won one Grand Tour, the 1988 Vuelta a España, and four green jerseys in the Tour de France. From the Sean Kelly article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
John James 'Sean' Kelly is an Irish former professional road bicycle racer, one of the most successful road cyclists of the ____s, and one of the finest Classics riders of all time.
Answer
1980s. John James 'Sean' Kelly is an Irish former professional road bicycle racer, one of the most successful road cyclists of the 1980s, and one of the finest Classics riders of all time. From the Sean Kelly article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- From becoming a professional in 1977 until his retirement in 1994, he won 193 professional races, including nine Monument Classics, Paris–Nice a record seven years consecutively and the first UCI Road World Cup in 1989.
- Kelly won one Grand Tour, the 1988 Vuelta a España, and four green jerseys in the Tour de France.
- He achieved multiple victories in the Giro di Lombardia, Milan–San Remo, Paris–Roubaix and Liège–Bastogne–Liège, as well as three runners-up placings in the only Monument he failed to win, the Tour of Flanders.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Sean Kelly article was read about 89,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 88 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Sean Kelly (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Pierre Diéterlé ( Jean de Gribaldy.com ), CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
