Nadia and Carol
Nadia Comaneci, (born November 12th, 1961 Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (now Onesti(born November 12, 1961 in Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej, now One Romania) Romanian gymnast who was the first gymnast in history to get a flawless score of 10 points in the Olympic competition. Bela Karrolyi, the Romanian gymnastics instructor who became Comaneci's coach later on found her around the age of six. She competed in the Romanian Junior Championships where she placed 13th. She won in 1970. At her first international competition in 1972, she won the event by winning three gold awards. In her first international competition as a senior, in 1975 she beat out Russian Lyudmila Turishcheva, a five-time European champion, winning 4 gold medals and one silver. In 1976, she was the world's first woman who used a double backwards salto for a dismount off parallel bars. Carol Wayne.........................Carol Wayne was an American film and TV actor best recognized for portraying Art Fern's Tea-Time Movie Lady on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. In her teens, Carol Wayne began working in the entertainment business performing as figure skater. Together with her younger twin brother Nina Wayne she was part of a traveling show called Ice Capades. Carol Marie Wayne was born on September 6 1942 at Chicago Illinois US. Carol began her career in the entertainment business as a teenager. In her early years Carol was an ice figure skater on the show Ice Capades with her sister Nina Wayne. The show featured dramatic ice skating shows.





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