Nadia and Carol

Nadia Comaneci is a Romanian gymnast (born 12 November 1961 at Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej (now Onesti] Romania). She was the first person to reach a flawless 10 during an Olympic occasion. Bela Karalyi discovered Comaneci at the age of six. Later, she would become Romania's gymnastics coach. In 1969, she participated in the Romanian Junior Championships and placed 13th. She won in 1970. The first time she competed in an international event, which was an preolympics junior event that was open to countries of the communist bloc, she was awarded three gold medals. And in 1973 and 1975 she was crowned all-around Junior Champion. In her first international competition as a senior athlete in the year 1975, she bested the Russian Lyudmila Turishcheva, a five-time European champion winning four gold medals and one silver. In 1976 she became the first person in the world to use a backwards-double salto to dismount from 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. In her teens she started appearing on travelling shows such as Ice Capades as a skater alongside her younger sister Nina Wayne. Carol Marie Wayne is a American citizen who was born on September 6 1942, in Chicago Illinois. Carol started her career in entertainment when she was in her teens. She started her career performing figure skating along with Nina Wayne, her younger sister as part of traveling entertainment show Ice Capades. They featured staged ice skating performances.

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