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Glen Weldon

A fight to the glitter end: Your guide to Eurovision 2022

Kalush Orchestra, the Ukrainian band favored to win Eurovision, performing during the semifinals. (Sarah Louise Bennett/EBU)

The Eurovision Song Contest is back, replete with the requisite amounts of fire and lasers and smoke and sequins. And this year, ESC producers have added still another element to the already overstuffed visual mix — water, in the form of a rippling cascade that lines the edge of the stage of the 12,350-seat PalaOlimpico in Turin, Italy.

This infinity-waterfall effect might be an attempt to evoke the world-famous fountains of Rome, or it might be just there to look cool. It's Eurovision, so it's probably a bit of Column A, and a whole lot of Column B.

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