• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    At the same time he was one of the favourites to win the competition and disqualifying him was very controversial. Particularly because Sweden won that year and it very conveniently coincided with Sweden then hosting the next Eurovision, the same year that ABBA could celebrated 50 years since they won the Eurovision with “Waterloo”

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      You’re mixing up things, Europapa was last year when Switzerland won. The year before that Cha Cha Cha was the audience’s favourite but Sweden won.