These achievements won her fame and drew the attention of martial arts superstar Jackie Chan[3] who sponsored her while promoting his film Shanghai Noon in the United Kingdom.

Due to an "error" in judging, Stevenson almost exited the 2008 Summer Olympics in the quarterfinal stage following her match with China's Chen Zhong, the gold medal favourite.

Following the match, the British team representative immediately made an official protest and, after studying video footage of the kick the judges reversed the result of the fight and Stevenson progressed to the semifinal.

[4] On announcing the change of result in the quarter final, the tournament director said: "The competition supervisory board has looked into this matter deeply, has made video analysis which has been open to all the referees and judges.

As a result of this judging error in particular, emphasis may be switching to having electronic scoring equipment contained within the actual body protectors themselves, and many tournaments are now using these in trial phase.

However, since this technology is far from refined, and due to tactical differences needed in gameplay and style, Stevenson, and athletes from other National Teams, currently do not favour this system and often boycott such tournaments.