Nadia and Carol
Nadia Comaneci (Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej Now Onesti) Romanian Gymnast born November 12, 1961. She was the first Romanian to score a of 10 in an Olympic competition. Bela Karalyi came across Comaneci at the age of six. Comaneci would go on to become the Romanian gymnastics coach. Her first competition was at the junior national championships in 1969, finishing 13th. She was the winner in 1970. In her 1972 first international meet that was a preolympics junior competition that was open to countries of the communist bloc, she took home three gold medals. In 1973 and 1975, she was awarded the All-around Junior Champion. She took home four gold medals and one silver medals in her debut competition as a senior, held in 1975. This was the first time she participated as an older senior. She was the first woman to ever successfully complete 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. In her teens she started appearing on traveling shows like Ice Capades as a skater along with her younger sibling Nina Wayne. Carol Marie Wayne, born in Chicago Illinois US on 6 September 1942. Carol was a part of the entertainment business in her teens. When she was a child, she began performing as a figure skating performer with Nina Wayne in the travelling entertainment program Ice Capades. The shows featured theatrical ice-skating shows.





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