Nadia and Carol

Nadia Comaneci (Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej currently Onesti) Romanian Gymnast born 12 November 1961. She was the first Romanian to be awarded a score of 10 for an Olympic competition. Bela Karolyi, later Romanian Gymnastics Coach discovered Comaneci as she was only 6 years old. Her first competition was in The National Junior Championships where she placed 13th in 1969. In 1970, Comaneci took home the title. Her first competition in the international arena was in 1972 a pre-Olympic junior meet for the communist-bloc countries she won three gold medals. In 1973 and 1974, she was an all-around junior champion. At her first competition as a senior, in 1975 she beat out Russian Lyudmila Turishcheva the five-time European champion winning four gold and one silver medal. She took home the American Cup in New York City in 1976 becoming the first woman in history to complete a reverse double salto, which is a dismount from the uneven bars that are parallel. 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 the entertainment industry during her teenage years, when she performed as a figure skating duo with their twin sister Nina Wayne for the travelling show Ice Capades. Carol Marie Wayne, born in Chicago Illinois US on 6 September 1942. Carol was a part of the world of entertainment as a teenager. At the age of a girl, she began performing as an ice skater with Nina Wayne in the travelling entertainment program Ice Capades. The show featured dramatic ice skating shows.

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