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No one else in the sport’s recent history has possessed such a knack for driving fans, administrators and executives completely mad.

So why is the sport in this predicament, and what can it do to improve?

Influencer and women's sport advocate Demi Brown told the BBC she had been forced to "become resilient" in response to negative comments about her weight and appearance online.

“That would be extremely reckless to do that now, but it was a great sport back then,” Robin Hall, who oversaw the parade and Macy’s other entertainment broadcasts from 2001 to 2013, said.

Perhaps the strangest sculptures in the show are a selection of flowing beards, symbol of maturity and wisdom, which derive from the long, lavish one the great Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi sported.