Wikirandompedia - Sports Edition

I’ve noticed that when I click on “random article” on the Wikipedia home page, it often brings up an athlete.

To play this game: From the home page, click on “random article” repeatedly until you arrive at a page for an athlete, counting your clicks as you go. Then post your number of clicks.

You may not post consecutive numbers unless an entire day has passed from your last post (and yours is the most recent).

The person with the fewest number of clicks and the person with the highest number of clicks wins absolutely nothing.

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Oh, we have to post at least 5 characters. I guess we are commenting too, then.

Brahim Konaté, soccer (ok, football) player.

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Five

Len Watters (1898-1986), American football player and coach

Never heard of him before right now.

Four

Arthur Hoare, English cricketer, 1871-1941

Three clicks to cricketer Roger Dermont.

12

Daniel Pinta Quigley is a four time world professional kickboxer from Derry, Northern Ireland.

Well, I finally got one but it took 34 clicks. Ephraim Lerkin (born 27 November 1997) is a Papua New Guinean track and field athlete

I did get some athletic events (a women’s hockey tournament, for one) but you said a person, so there you are. I was wondering why; it can’t be that Wikipedia bases your “randoms” on what you normally search for, because I search for hockey players all the time. Any ideas?

4 clicks to Richard Olsen, a Danish rower who participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

My mother is planning to get a Cadillac CTS tomorrow (as her 2nd car for Florida; yes she is a snowbird).

Third hit is the Cadillac ATS, and they have one of those at the dealership too.

Oh, my first athlete is John Wheatley (cricketer), 10 clicks. I assume a disambiguation page doesn’t count (9th was for Sakai, 1st on the list is a Japanese wrestler).

I was going to say that for me, random article always brings me to a place - but then I got this:

  1. Place
  2. Place
  3. Susanne Müller, German field hockey player

One click: Dinko Felić, a Bosnian-born Norwegian footballer who plays for FC Linköping City. Doesn’t seem to be all that notable of a player. Okey dokey.

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Yurkevich (Russian: Александр Михайлович Юркевич; 22 May 1942 – 25 June 2011) was a Greco-Roman wrestler from Russia who won a European title in 1967 and a world title in 1969.

I was mostly getting eastern european and asian villages !

3

Mehran Alighadr, an Iranian professional futsal player.

And today I learned that futsal is five-a-side indoor soccer played on a smaller field.

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