| abstract | - Fångad av en stormvind was the Swedish entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 in Rome performed by Carola Häggkvist. It was Häggkvist's second go at the contest after a third-place finish in Munich in 1983. It was performed 8th on the night following Luxembourg and preceding France. At the close of voting, it was tied for first place with the French entry on 146 points, both songs receiving 4 sets of 12-point scores. However, when it came to the next step of the count-back procedure, the advantage swung in Carola's favor as she received 5 sets of 10-point scores compared to 2 sets for Amina of France. This count-back gave Carola the win and Sweden its third victory overall. Had the current tiebreaker rules come into effect, Carola would have lost to Amina because 1 less country voted for her song over the French entry (18-17). During the performance, the sound failed inside the venue but Carola kept singing (the television viewers and the juries could still hear it perfectly). For the winner's reprise, she performed the song both in English (first verse/chorus, second part of the bridge and final chorus) and the original Swedish (first verse/chorus and first part of the bridge).
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