Nadia and Carol

Nadia Comaneci (Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej Now Onesti) Romanian Gymnast born on November 12, 1961. She was the first Romanian to receive a score of 10 at the Olympic event. Bela Karalyi was introduced to Comaneci when she was six. Later, she would become the Romanian gymnastics coach. Comaneci was the first to compete for time in the 1969 national junior championships and finished 13th. Following that, she was crowned champion. The first time she competed in an international event, which was an preolympics junior event for countries in the Communist bloc, she took home three gold medals. And in 1973 and 1975, she won crowned all-around Junior Champion. Her debut as a Senior in 1975 she beat the Russian Lyudmila Turkishcheva, the five-time European champ winning four gold medals and one silver. The year was 1976 when she was the winner of the American Cup at the New York City Olympic Games and became the first woman ever to remove the parallel bars using the 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. As a teenager Carol Wayne started working in the entertainment industry as a performer as a figure skater. Along with her twin brother Nina Wayne she was part of a show that traveled called Ice Capades. Carol Marie Wayne, born in Chicago Illinois US on 6 September 1942. Carol started her career in entertainment in her teens. She started her career performing figure skating along with Nina Wayne, her younger sister in one of the touring entertainment shows Ice Capades. These shows were ice skating events which included stage performances.