Nadia and Carol
Nadia Comaneci was born on November 12, 1961, within Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej (now Onesti), Romania. Nadia is the Romanian Olympic gymnast and she is the only person to be given 10/10 points at an Olympic event. Bela Karalyi discovered Comaneci at the age of six. Comaneci would go on to become Romania's gymnastics coach. Comaneci was the first to compete for time in the 1969 national junior championships. She finished 13th. The following year she was crowned champion. She took home three golds at her debut competition, a junior pre-Olympic meet in 1972 for the communist bloc nations. Between 1973 and 1974 she won the junior all-round champion. In her debut as a senior in 1975 she beat the Russian Lyudmila Turkishcheva, the five-time European champion, winning four gold medals and one silver. The first female to perform a reverse double salo with the uneven parallel bar when she won the American Cup, New York City 1976. 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 in the world of entertainment began in her teens when she started skating figure with her younger twin sister Nina Wayne as part of the shows that traveled around known as Ice Capades. Carol Marie Wayne born 6 September 1942 Chicago Illinois US. Carol ventured into the world of entertainment as a teenager. In her early years Carol was an ice figure skater on the show Ice Capades with her sister Nina Wayne. The shows featured theatrical ice-skating performances.





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