Nadia and Carol

Nadia Comaneci is a Romanian gymnast (born 12 November 1961, in Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej (now Onesti] Romania). She was first to achieve a perfect 10 on an Olympic occasion. Bela Karalyi came across Comaneci when she was six. Comaneci would go on to become Romania's gymnastics coach. Her first competition was in the National Junior Championships which she finished 13th in 1969. In the year 1970, she was crowned champion. In her first international competition in 1972 at a pre-Olympic Junior event for countries of the communist bloc she was awarded three gold medals. In 1973 and 1974, she was an all-around junior champion. Her first senior competition in 1975, she beat Russian Lyudmila Turkishcheva. She was the five-time European champion who won four golds and one argent. She was the winner of the American Cup in New York City in 1976, becoming the first female to do a backward double salto as dismounting from the uneven bars parallel to each other. 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 started appearing on touring shows like Ice Capades as a skater alongside her younger sister Nina Wayne. Carol Marie Wayne was born on September 6 1942 in Chicago Illinois US. Carol ventured into the world of entertainment in her teens. Her first job was as a model skater with her younger sister Nina Wayne as part of the shows that traveled around named Ice Capades. The show featured dramatic ice skating shows.