Nadia and Carol
Nadia Comaneci was born on November 12, 1961, in Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej (now Onesti), Romania. Nadia is the Romanian Olympic gymnast and she is the only person to be given 10/10 points in an Olympic event. Comaneci was spotted by Bela Karolyi later the Romanian gymnastics coach when she was six years old. The first time she competed was at the National Junior Championships which she finished 13th in the year 1969. In 1970, she took home the title. At her first international event, which was an preolympics junior event for countries in the Communist bloc, she won 3 gold medals. In 1973 and 1975, she was crowned all-around Junior Champion. In her first international competition as a senior, in 1975 she bested the Russian Lyudmila Turishcheva, a five-time European champion, winning four gold medals and one silver. She was the first woman ever to perform the backwards double salto after dismounting from an unbalanced 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. Her career began in entertainment during her teenage years in which she was a part of an ice skating duo along with her sister Nina Wayne for the travelling entertainment show Ice Capades. Carol Marie Wayne was a born on the 6th of September, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. Carol began her career in the entertainment business in her teens. She began her professional career by performing figure skating alongside Nina Wayne, her younger sister as part of traveling entertainment shows Ice Capades. The shows featured ice skating that included theatrical performances.





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