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Austria's Conchita wins Eurovision 2014

Tonight’s Eurovision Song Contest was won by Austria’s Conchita Wurst with Rise Like a Phoenix with a score of 290 points.

Austria won after a very close race with the Netherlands who came in second. The Common Linnets performed Calm After the Storm.

It was revealed after the contest that the Netherlands had won the first semi-final on Tuesday night while Austria had won out in the second semi-final on Thursday.

Wurst had attracted a huge amount of publicity prior to the contest and has been dubbed “the bearded lady” in the press. Dismissing the attention she told Associated Press "Hey, I'm just a singer in a fabulous dress, with great hair and a beard.'

Tom Neuwirth unleashed his alter-ego Conchita on the world in 2011 when sheto administer interventions to the participants of the study at no cost. The chiropractors had varied tertiary qualifications: one had Bachelor of Medical Sciences and a Master of Chiropractic; two had a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Chiropractic and one had Bachelor of Science and a Graduate Diploma of Chiropractic. All of the chiropractors had undergone the four NET training workshops over a two year period, and had passed the certification exams in both theory and practice, and a thus were qualified as NET certified practitioners. These practitioners were chosen on the basis that they were experts in the field, were certified and agreed to abide by the study protocols.

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