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== SMK World Championship 2010==

== SMK World Championship 2010==

Florent succesfully defended his title at the second SMK World Championship, the [http://www.championnat-smk.org/CDF2010.php CDM 2010], adding another milestone and achievement to his already illustrous career. Attendance rates to the event were still high, however, when compared to the previous two editions, this year the balance in number of participants shifted even more towards  karters from the hosting country [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France France].  That said, international karters from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands the Netherlands], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland Zwitzerland], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain Spain], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England England] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA USA], were present to complete the field.  

Florent succesfully defended his title at the second SMK World Championship, the [http://www.championnat-smk.org/CDF2010.php CDM 2010], adding another milestone and achievement to his already illustrous career. Attendance rates to the event were still high, however, when compared to the previous two editions, this year the balance in number of participants shifted even more towards  karters from the hosting country [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France France].  That said, international karters from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands the Netherlands], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland Zwitzerland], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain Spain], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England England] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA USA], were present to complete the field.  

The 2010 edition had without a doubt the strongest line-up of participants that the [[SMK]] playing world had ever witnessed thus far: in addition to the presence of all the top ranked players of the [http://www.championnat-smk.org/CDF2009.php CDM 2009], triple [http://www.championnat-smk.org/ CDF] winner [http://speedrunwiki.com/Pierre_L%27Hoest Pierre L'Hoëst] and multi-medal winner [[Matthias Boucher]] (known as Gatchan on the boards) also returned to the competition for this event. As could be expected after the events that transpired during the previous year ([http://www.championnat-smk.org/CDF2009.php CDM 2009]), Florent’s biggest opposition once again came from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom UK] Champion [http://speedrunwiki.com/Sami Sami], who announced his ambitions in the days prior to the event by an inspirational [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYxitvoVlXQ trailer], heralding the now famous words: “The Time is Coming”. To underline this, [http://speedrunwiki.com/Sami Sami] took the #3 spot from Florent in the [[PAL]] [[Time Trial]] rankings at around the same moment. The intense rivalry between Florent and [http://speedrunwiki.com/Sami Sami] was really starting to resemble the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federer Roger Federer] vs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Nadal Rafael Nadal] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis tennis] rivalry in an increasing number of ways and in reference to this, [http://speedrunwiki.com/Sami Sami] now called himself 'the Rafael Nadal of SMK', wearing a sleeveless top to match.  

The 2010 edition had without a doubt the strongest line-up of participants that the [[SMK]] playing world had ever witnessed thus far: in addition to the presence of all the top ranked players of the [http://www.championnat-smk.org/CDF2009.php CDM 2009], triple [http://www.championnat-smk.org/ CDF] winner [http://speedrunwiki.com/Pierre_L%27Hoest Pierre L'Hoëst] and multi-medal winner [[Matthias Boucher]] (known as Gatchan on the boards) also returned to the competition for this event. As could be expected after the events that transpired during the previous year ([http://www.championnat-smk.org/CDF2009.php CDM 2009]), Florent’s biggest opposition once again came from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom UK] Champion [http://speedrunwiki.com/Sami Sami], who announced his ambitions in the days prior to the event by an inspirational [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYxitvoVlXQ trailer], heralding the now famous words: “The Time is Coming”. To underline this, [http://speedrunwiki.com/Sami Sami] took the #3 spot from Florent in the [[PAL]] [[Time Trial]] rankings at around the same moment. The intense rivalry between Florent and [http://speedrunwiki.com/Sami Sami] was really starting to resemble the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federer Roger Federer] vs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Nadal Rafael Nadal] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis tennis] rivalry in an increasing number of ways and in reference to this, [http://speedrunwiki.com/Sami Sami] now called himself 'the Rafael Nadal of SMK', wearing a sleeveless top to match.