Nadia and Carol

Nadia Comaneci (Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej, now Onesti) Romanian Gymnast born 12 November 1961. She was the first Romanian to score a of 10 for an Olympic competition. Bela Karrolyi is a Romanian gymnastics instructor, who later became Comaneci's coach who first came across Comaneci aged six. The first time she competed at the national junior championships of 1969 and finished 13th. She was the winner in 1970. At her first international event, which was an Olympic-style junior preolympic competition that was open to countries of the communist bloc, she was awarded three gold medals. In 1973 and 1975, she won awarded the All-around Junior Champion. Her debut as a Senior in 1975 she beat the Russian Lyudmila Turkishcheva. The five-time European champ winning four golds and one argent. In 1976 she became the world's first woman who used a double backwards salto in order to take off 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. As a teenager she began her career in the entertainment field by performing in the form of figure skater. Along with her younger twin brother Nina Wayne she was part of the traveling show Ice Capades. Carol Marie Wayne was a born on 6th September 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. Carol began her journey into the entertainment industry during her teenage years. Her first professional gig was figure skating with Nina Wayne, her younger sister in one of the touring entertainment show Ice Capades. They featured dramatic skating on ice shows.