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Norway: The Eurovision party starts
As the Eurovision Song Contest voting came to a conclusion, the clocks in Norway passed midnight and Norway's national day began. Traditionally a day of national celebration and pride, today, Norway is celebrating twice as hard.
Last night, the Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg, who is currently in Spain before travelling to Russia stated "it’s a great holiday and I should say that it will be particularly pleasant for me now to visit Moscow next Tuesday". The Minister for Culture signalled that the government would work closely with NRK to stage the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest, stating "It’s simply fantastic. We are already thinking where to hold the event next year".
The first videos of street parties following Alexander Rybak's victory are now appearing online. Below, you can see some of the crowds coming out on the streets of Norway to celebrate their victory. Alexander Ryback joins Bobbysocks and Secret Garden in the Eurovision hall of fame, as the third winner to take the Eurovision Song Contest to norway.
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Next year if Norway will send Sichelle they can't win, because it is so hard to win as host country representative! I want Sichelle for ESC for some other country, then she can win! lol 
CONGRATULATIONS NORWAY AND ICELAND...
and I think the Actual third song is Estonia
and come U.K. and Danemark
thanks for the nices song Estonia, U.K., Danemark, France
Heja Norge!
Looking forward to your show!
I wonder how many countries will participate in 2010...
The complete hysterical chaos of Alexanders arrival at Gardermoen, Norway, late sunday night on the 17th of May - our national day! 
I guess a bit more than he expected...
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superb is all i can say
where are the doubters now all those greeks turks and armenians
go norway
this was a victory not only for norway but all of western europe
From VG http://www.vgtv.no/?(...)22500&category=5 Fairytale played in the 17.May-Pride
Iceland won last night, the first place was never a contest. Iceland, Turkey and Azerbaijan fought for the second and Iceland prevailed!
And by winning the semi final we can at least say we have 1/2 a win! For the first time in months the Icelandic people are happy.
Thank you to everyone who voted for us last night!
Further to my comment...
S A K I S ... Europe LOVES you!!!
7th SONG out of 42 ... millions of televotes and voted by juries 
, too, I might add!
GO GREECE! woo hoooooo!
It's been a pleasure spending time with you and everyone here.
Enjoy your summer. I know I WILL.
Thank you.
Thanks Goo Goo Doll- thats quite interesting once u compare that to the points they gave in the end- especially for Malta
Welcome to Norway for 2010!
You should ALL be ....THANKING ...G.R.E.E.C.E.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Norway, too!)
Europe's --historically FIRST, true WESTERN -- country,
G.R.E.E.C.E. was FIRST to announce her ESC representative, S A K I S !!!!!!
THAT was in itself a GUARANTEE that the bar ... HAD to be set HIGH
(and, eventually, was) by all of the other remaining ESC participating countries!!!
Hence, UK's ALW?????O France's Patricia Kaas????? 
... at the ESC???? and so on.
After that ... ALL countries just participated (GAMBLED?) in a ... R.U.S.S.I.A.N. roulette!
(However, it is NO coincidence that the "winner" just happened to speak ...R.U.S.S.I.A.N. ...FLUENTLY!!)
Indeed, the competition PROVED to be strong, but I still don't think the BEST song won.
As for S A K I S , he had a
STRONG well-orchestrated (musically /vocally /visually) SONG
that WON (with juries , I might add!!!)...7th place out of 42 songs!
I am very satisfied with his ENERGETIC performance!!!
A B.I.G. THANKS --ONLY-- to the MILLIONS in EUROPE,
who did VOTE FOR GREECE'S S.O.N.G.!!!!!!!
...."This is our night" with Sakis Rouvas ....
Y.O.U. HAVE SUPER GREAT TASTE IN M.U.S.I.C.
as well as a ... FRESH , MODERN , SLEEK
...OUTL@@K and APPROACH to LIFE!!!!
It is 2009, after all ...
Romanian jury result (published on the official site of TVR):
Azerbaijan - 1 p.
Israel - 2 p.
UK - 3 p.
Norway - 4 p.
Denmark - 5 p.
Greece - 6 p.
Armenia - 7 p.
Malta - 8 p.
Moldova - 10 p.
Iceland - 12 p.
¨Visit Oslo next year You will never forget to experience our nationalday in the capitalcity!
Great performance and it deserved to win. I really don't remeber when the wining song was so different than all others songs.
Congratulations to Norway. They really deserved it (Iceland a little more, but )
It seems the only "western" countries able to win are the Scandinavians.
And he's already No.4 in Sweden! Congratulations!
Greece didn't deserve to be in the final with this song. So they should be celebrating a 7th place, achieved mostly thanks to some diaspora and of course the obligatory 12 points from Cyprus (which sucks)
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Well, congratulations another time, Norway! (When is Eurovision going to come back to the South?? )
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