Nadia and Carol
Nadia Comaneci, (born November 12th, 1961 Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (now OnestiGheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej [now Onesti Romania) Romanian gymnast who was the first gymnast to receive a score of a perfect of 10 in an Olympic event. Bela Karolyi was later Romanian Gymnastics Coach discovered Comaneci as she was only six years old. Her first competition was in the national junior championships where she placed 13th in 1969. In the year 1970, she won. At her first international competition, which was a preolympics junior competition for countries in the Communist bloc, she won 3 gold medals. And in 1973 and 1975, she won awarded the All-around Junior Champion. In 1975, she won 4 gold and 1 silver in her first senior competition. Lyudmila Torishcheva was a five-time European Champion. In 1976, she became the world's first woman to use a backwards-double salto for a dismount off the 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. When she was a teen she began her career in the entertainment field as a performer as figure skater. With her younger sister Nina Wayne she was part of a traveling show called Ice Capades. Carol Marie Wayne was born on September 6, 1942, at Chicago Illinois US. Carol's first job was in entertainment during her teenage year. She began her career when she joined her sister Nina Wayne to perform in Ice Capades, a traveling performance. The show featured stage-moving ice-skating shows.





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