Nadia and Carol

Nadia Comaneci (Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej, now Onesti) Romanian Gymnast born on November 12, 1961. She was the first Romanian to be awarded a score of 10 for an Olympic contest. Bela Karrolyi was the Romanian gymnastics instructor who became Comaneci's coach later in life, discovered her at age six. Comaneci participated for the first time in the 1969 national junior championships. She finished 13th. In the following year, she was crowned champion. In her very first international event in 1972 she took the top spot by winning three gold awards. When she competed for the first time at the senior level, Lyudmila Turkishcheva of Russia won five gold medals, as well being awarded a silver. She was the first female ever to successfully perform reverse double saltos 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. She began her career in the entertainment industry as a teenager in which she was a part of the figure skating duo of the twin sister Nina Wayne for the travelling entertainment program Ice Capades. Carol Marie Wayne, born in Chicago Illinois US on 6 September 1942. Carol was a part of the entertainment business in her teens. The path she took to success began by joining her sister Nina Wayne to perform in Ice Capades, a traveling spectacle of entertainment. The show featured dramatic ice skating shows.

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