ESC-Stars nominated for the ALS Ice bucket challenge and accepted

This summer a very big hype goes viral through the social media: The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. The rules are clear: you have 24 hours to post a video of yourself showering in a waterfall of icewater with ice cube in the social medias. In this video you are allowed to nominate three other people to made the same. But it is not only for making fun of it, it is also to bring a disease into focus: The Amyotophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This deseace is a neurodegenerative disease and it known for muscle spasticity, progressive weakness due to muscle atrophy, difficulties in speaking, swallowing and breathing. Most known man having this disease is the  physicist Steven Hawking. The ALS association announced that in the time between the 29th of July and the 21st of August 41,8 Million Dollars were contributed. In comparison: it were 2,1 Million Dollars in 2013 in the same time frame and the US government spent 40 Million Dollars in the year for the research in this.
The ALSIceBucketChallenge reached all people. From international sports stars (for example Christian Ronaldo, Manuel Neuer, Lionel Messi, Mesut Özil, Jose Mourinho, LeBron Jones, Neymar, Sabine Lisicki, Stefan Kretschmar), to international movie and series stars (Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Vin Diesel, Robert Pattinson, Zac Efron, Will Smith, Charlie Sheen, the cast from Grey's Anatomie and even Kermit the frog), politicans (most known: former US president George W. Bush) and of course international singers (Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Shakira, Justin Timberlake,  Justin Bieber, Beyonce) the challenge was spread. And also stars from the Eurovision Song Contest took part in the challenge.

Ruth Lorenzo, Spain, 2014 (called dancing in the ice rain?)

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Cascada, Germany, 2014

Blue, Great Britain, 2011

Lena, Germany, 2010 + 2011

Conchita Wurst, Austria, 2014

(well in a different way)

You wanna see more about the Eurovision Stars doing the ice bucket challenge? Just open your ice on youtub or the news. And don't forget to donate. It is for a good purpose.

Sources: 

• esctoday.com
• wikipedia.org