Taekwondo competition Nidecker started to practice Taekwondo at the age of 4. She earned a black belt at 9 and won a junior national championship. At 13, she participated to the 2000 World Junior Championships, ranked third, and was recruited by the French taekwondo federation. She joined the CREPS Aix-en-Provence for the 2001-2002 sport season with
Pascal Gentil and Mamedy Doucara. She won the Francophone World Cup in the -67 kg division. She returned to Canada after a year and put her premature career on hold, until Myriam Baverel invited her back to the CREPS Aix-en-Provence in 2006. She then lost to
Hou Yuzhuo in the semi-finals.
Sports patronage In 2014, she founded the Fondation Heart Angel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast to promote education, culture and sports in West Africa. The foundation supported the athletes
Cheick Cissé and
Ruth Gbagbi who won historic medals for their country at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. In 2016, Nidecker became a Champion for Peace representing the
Peace and Sport organisation, under the High Patronage of
Prince Albert II of Monaco. She actively promotes peace through sport and doing field actions all over the world. In parallel to her sport career, she obtained a BA in Journalism and Communications at the Centre de Formation de Journalistes de
Paris, starred in an advertising campaign for Allianz with
Ladji Doucouré and Blune with
Mazarine Pingeot, and worked for various media outlets such as
Eurosport,
Canal+ Africa and
France Televisions, covering the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. She is also involved with various foundations and is an ambassador for "Un Maillot Pour la Vie" and Fondation Heart Angel. Nidecker is also the founder and president of the
Caravan for Peace, a humanitarian action supported by athletes such as
Didier Drogba,
Ladji Doucouré and
Daba Modibo Keita. The goal is to unite sports celebrities to promote a message of peace and use sport as a tool for development. In 2017, for the first edition, the sports celebrities visited villages in
Senegal and launched water fountains near sports fields. In 2018, during UNESCO's International Day for Philosophy, she was appointed Ambassador of the International center for youth philosophy PhiloJeunes. ==Results==