Nadia and Carol
Nadia Comaneci, (born November 12th of November, 1961 Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej [now OnestiGheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej [now Onesti Romania) Romanian gymnast who was the first gymnast in history to receive a score of a perfect of 10 points in the Olympic competition. Bela Karolyi, later Romanian gymnastics coach, discovered Comaneci when she was just 6 years old. Her first competition was at the junior national championships in 1969, finishing 13th. She was the winner in 1970. In 1972, during an event for communist-controlled countries' junior athletes prior to the Olympics, she took home three gold medals. After that, in 1973 and 1974 she won the overall junior champion. In her first senior competition in the year 1975, she defeated Russian Lyudmila Turkishcheva, the five-time European champion, winning four golds and a silver. In 1976 she became the first person in the world who used a double backwards 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. The journey of Carol Wayne in the world of entertainment started in her teens. Along with her sister Nina Wayne, she joined the traveling entertainment show known as Ice Capades. Carol Marie Wayne, born in Chicago Illinois US on 6 September 1942. Carol ventured into the entertainment business in her teens. The path she took to success began when she joined her sister Nina Wayne to perform in Ice Capades, a traveling performance. They featured staged ice skating shows.
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