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"The wrong winner was announced at Canada&amp;#039;s Miss Universe pageant last Saturday (May 25). Denise Garrido, 26, was crowned Miss Canada at the event, before being stripped of her title 24 hours later after organisers realised there had been a mix up with the results. Garrido was eventually revealed to be the third runner-up in the competition, which was actually won by Riza Santos. Santos will now represent Canada at the Miss Universe final in December. Garrido told AFP: &amp;quot;I was shocked. I&amp;#039;d achieved my dream and suddenly after a day of it sinking in it was suddenly taken away from me.&amp;quot; Pageant director Denis Davila blamed a typo by an inexperienced employee for the error, which occurred when inputting the judges&amp;#039; handwritten scores into a computer program. Despite the mistake, Garrido said that she would always relish being crowned the winner &amp;quot;even if it lasted for only 24 hours&amp;quot;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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