Here are men’s and women’s all-around champions from last five Olympic Games -- these are just brief biographies, but they surely give you an idea of your gymnast’s potential.

2004 Paul Hamm, Carly Patterson

Paul Hamm, 2004 men’s all-around champion in gymnastics, was born on September 24, 1982, and has a twin brother by name of Morgan. Paul was first American man to take gold for all-around competition in a fully attended Olympic Game. He is noteworthy for some controversy surrounding his title.

Carly Patterson was born on February fourth, 1988, in Baton Rouge,Louisiana, to a pair of loving parents - her mother, Natalie, and her father, Ricky. She is first of a pair of girls (her younger sister is Jordan). In 2004, she became first all-around Olympic champion for United States in more than two decades, and was also first to win for US in past two games. The last female all-around gymnastics champion for United States won in 1984, when Soviet Union had boycotted Olympics entirely.

2000 Andreea Raducan, Alexei Nemov

Andreea Madalina Raducan was born on thirtieth of September, 1983, in Birlad, Romania. She was trained under Octavien Belu and Mariana Bitang of Cetate Deva Club in Romania and began gymnastics at age of five. She has several gold and silver medals under her belt from national and international competitions. Though she is listed as official Olympic all-around female champion, IOC stripped her of her medal when she tested positive for pseudophedrine (the active ingredient in many decongestants) after having taken a cold pill given to her by Romanian Olympic Team doctor. Regardless of whether or not she has medal, she is a champion - and an incredible one at that.

Alexei Nemov is considered to be one of best male gymnasts in world, as well as being a pin-up for girls. He was born on May 28th, 1976, in Barashevo, Russia. His start on gymnastics started early. At age of five, his mother took him to local gym, thinking that gymnastics would be an acceptable alternative to a more violent sport. He has had his ups and downs in gymnastics -- namely, with many injuries to his arms and shoulders -- but left Atlanta and Sydney Olympics with six medals each. In 2000, he was crowned men’s all-around gymnastics champion and bore his gold medal proudly.

1996 Li Xiaoshuang, Lilia Podkopayeva

Li Xiaoshuang, men’s all-around gymnastics champion in 1996 Olympics, was born on November 1, 1973, in Xintao, Hubei Province, China. His career has been marked with many successes. At age of seven, he took up gymnastics; two years later, he was part of his provincial team, and at twelve years of age, he was part of Chinese national gymnastics team. He has won many gold medals in his time, including two from separate Olympic games - 1992 and 1996 - and three from World Gymnastics Championships. In 1995, he was awarded well-deserved title of International Master of Sports and continues, to this date, to impress.

Since power of attraction, according to Newton, is proportional to mass of body that attracts, larger mass of body, larger its attraction. All bodies near earth fall to earth because it has an immense mass. An airplane or a bird starts to fall to ground as soon as its power of flight is exhausted. The force of attraction between earth and a two-pound weight is twice that between earth and a one-pound weight.

The attraction between earth and a body is called gravity. When gravity is represented by weight units, it is called weight. Now let us consider application of law of gravity to judo. The heavier opponent, more difficult it is for you to move him horizontally. It is even more difficult for you to move him vertically. On other hand, a larger gravity acts on him to make him fall.

In judo gravity may be represented as a force pulling opponent downward. If you want to make him fall, you make him lose his balance;that is, you cause his center of gravity to go outside base. Then gravity that acts on him works for you to make him lean or fall. Let us study action of law of gravity by illustrations.