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 is the only person to be recognized with 10/10 scores in an Olympic competition. Bela Karrolyi, the Romanian gymnastics instructor, who was later Comaneci's coach, first discovered Comaneci aged six. Her first competitive event was the National Junior Championships which she finished 13th in the year 1969. In the year 1970, she was crowned champion. In 1972, at the communist nations' meet for juniors before the Olympics, she took home three medals of gold. In 1973 and 1974 she won the all-around junior champ. When she competed for the first time as a senior athlete in the year 1975, she beat the Russian Lyudmila Turishcheva, a five-time European champion winning four gold medals and one silver. The year was 1976 when she won the American Cup at the New York City Olympics and became the first woman in history to dismount the parallel bars using a double backward salto. 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 a teen, Carol Wayne began working in the entertainment field performing as a figure skater. Together with her younger sister Nina Wayne she was part of a show that traveled called Ice Capades. Carol Marie Wayne is a American citizen who was born on September 6, 1942, in Chicago Illinois. Carol was a part of the entertainment business during her teenage years. In her early years she was a figure skater in traveling shows Ice Capades with her sister Nina Wayne. The show featured stage-moving ice-skating shows.