At the end of a nail biting week of musical performances, the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 finally declared its winner on Saturday evening when Switzerland's Nemo won with their song The Code.
The winning performance came after a tense week of surprising mishaps, in which controversy had dogged the 68th edition of the annual song contest for months in the run up to the live shows.
Much of the controversy stemmed from the decision to allow Israel to compete in the song contest, despite their ongoing war with Palestine in the Gaza Strip.
In previous years, other countries engaged in active conflict had been temporarily banned from competing, such as Russia who have been unable to send an entrant to the contest for the past three years as a result of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
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