“It feels like a stage of the Tour de France,” quipped a spectator on Twitter.
It is almost 3 am this Sunday when a journalist announces on the social network that the Italian participants of Eurovision will undergo a drug test.
No question of cycling, but of the European song competition which saw Italy sacred a few hours earlier.
Right in front of the French candidate, Barbara Pravi, passed very close to warding off the French fate in this competition.
Coming second in the competition, could the Frenchwoman finally win?
This is one of the questions that arise this Sunday morning, after the incendiary controversy that is playing out in Rotterdam.
The singer of the Italian group Maneskin, winner of the competition, could have discredited himself by consuming cocaine live during the show.
Singer Damiano David denies having taken any illicit substance after the broadcast of equivocal images on Saturday evening.
Along with his group, Maneskin, he agreed to undergo drug testing.