Career
Sixteen years after competing in his first Olympics, Nikolaidis qualified for his fourth Cypriot team, as a 41-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing second from the 2007 ISSF World Cup series in Changwon, South of Korea. He had finished on exactly the same score of 144 targets (120 in the preliminary rounds and 24 in the final) as France"s Anthony Terras in men"s skeet shooting, but narrowly lost the nation"s first ever Olympic medal in a shoot-off by one point for a bonus of two.