Nadia and Carol
Nadia Comaneci is a Romanian gymnast (born 12 November 1961, in Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej [now Onesti] Romania). She was first person to reach a flawless 10 in an Olympic occasion. Bela Karrolyi who was the Romanian gymnastics coach who later became her coach later in life, discovered her at age six. In 1969, she competed in the Romanian Junior Championships and finished 13th. She was awarded the championship in 1970. At her first international contest in 1972, she won the event having won three golds. When she made her debut as a senior in 1975 she beat the Russian Lyudmila Turkishcheva. The five-time European champion, winning four golds and a silver. In 1976, she became the first female athlete in the world to utilize a reversed double salto for a dismount off 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. When she was in her teens she started appearing on traveling shows like Ice Capades as a skater together with her younger sister Nina Wayne. Carol Marie Wayne was born on September 6 1942 on the 6th of September 1942 in Chicago Illinois US. Carol ventured into the world of entertainment as a teenager. Early on she was a figure skater on the show Ice Capades with her sister Nina Wayne. These shows included skaters who were performed to music from the stage.
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