Nadia and Carol
Nadia Comaneci was born on November 12, 1961, in Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej (now Onesti), Romania. Nadia is the Romanian Olympic gymnast and she is the only person to be given 10/10 points in an Olympic performance. Bela Karrolyi was the Romanian gymnastics coach who later became her coach later in life found her around the age of six. Her first competitive event was the national junior championships which she was 13th place in the year 1969. In 1970, she took home the title. At her first international event in 1972 at a pre-Olympic Junior meet for the communist-bloc countries she was awarded three gold medals. In 1973 and 1974, she was an all-around junior champion. At her first competitive event at the senior level, Lyudmila Turkishcheva of Russia won five gold medals aswell as one silver. In 1976, she was the first female athlete in the world who used a double backwards salto in order to take off the parallel bars. Carol Wayne.........................Carol Wayne was an American film a...