Nadia and Carol
Nadia Comaneci was born on December 12, 1961 within Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej (now Onesti), Romania. Nadia is the Romanian Olympic gymnast. She holds the record for being given 10/10 points in an Olympic performance. Comaneci was spotted by Bela Karolyi who was later her Romanian gymnastics instructor when she was only six years old. First competing in the junior national championships of Romania in the year 1969, she finished 13th. And in 1970, was crowned champion. In her 1972 first international event, which was a preolympics junior competition for countries in the Communist bloc, she won 3 gold medals. Then in 1973 and 1975, she was awarded the All-around Junior Champion. When she competed for the first time at the senior level, Lyudmila Turkishcheva from Russia took home five gold medals, as well as one silver. In 1976, she became the first female athlete in the world to use a backwards-double salto in order to take off the 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. She started her career in entertainment as a teenager, when she performed as an ice skating duo along with their sister Nina Wayne for the travelling show Ice Capades. Carol Marie Wayne born 6 September 1942 in Chicago Illinois US. Carol started her entertainment career during her teenage years. Her first job was as a model skater with her sister Nina Wayne as part of the shows that traveled around known as Ice Capades. Ice Capades featured performances of skating on ice by actors.





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