Nadia and Carol
Nadia Comaneci (Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej Now Onesti) Romanian Gymnast born November 12, 1961. She was the first Romanian to be awarded a score of 10 in an Olympic contest. Bela Karolyi later Romanian Gymnastics Coach, came across Comaneci when she was just 6 years old. She first competed at the championships for juniors from Romania in the year 1969, she finished 13th. And in 1970, was crowned champion. At her first international competition in 1972, she came out on top with three gold medals. In her first international competition as a senior athlete in the year 1975, she beat out Russian Lyudmila Turishcheva, a five-time European champion winning four gold medals and one silver. The first female ever to perform a backwards double salto while dismounting from an uneven parallel bar. 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. When she was a teen Carol Wayne started working in the entertainment field as a performer as figure skater. With her younger twin brother Nina Wayne she was part of a show that traveled called Ice Capades. Carol Marie Wayne is a American citizen who was born on September 6, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. Carol started her entertainment career in her teens. The path she took to success began with her joining Nina Wayne to perform in Ice Capades, a traveling spectacle of entertainment. The show featured stage-moving ice-skating performance.





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