Badminton at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games:

The defending champion was Zhang Ning, but the #1 seed was her teammate, Xie Xingfan, who had won the 2005-06 World Championships and the 2005-07 All-England titles. They met in the final, and Zhang, ready to retire after the Beijing Olympics, won her final match in three sets, upsetting Xie. The bronze medal match was also an upset, as Indonesia’s Maria Yulianti defeated the #2 seed Lu Lan in three sets, after losing the opening set. Yulianti had never before made the podium at a major event.