Nadia and Carol
Nadia Comaneci was born on December 12, 1961 in Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej (now Onesti), Romania. Nadia is the Romanian Olympic gymnast and she has the record of being awarded 10/10 marks in an Olympic performance. Bela Karolyi, later Romanian Gymnastics Coach discovered Comaneci as she was only six years old. The year 1969 was the first time she competed at the Romanian Junior Championships and placed 13th. She was awarded the championship in 1970. Three gold medals were awarded in her first competition in a junior pre-Olympic meeting in 1972 for communist bloc countries. Between 1973 and 1974, she was the junior all-round champion. At her first competitive event at the senior level, Lyudmila Turkishcheva from Russia took home five gold medals aswell being awarded a silver. She was the first woman to complete the reverse double salo of the uneven parallel bar in the event she won 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. As a teenager she was performing on travelling shows such as Ice Capades as a skater alongside her younger sister Nina Wayne. Carol Marie Wayne, born in Chicago Illinois US on 6 September 1942. Carol's professional career started in the entertainment industry in her teens. Early on, Carol began as a figure skater in traveling shows Ice Capades with her sister Nina Wayne. The shows featured skaters who were followed by musical performances.





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