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Facts
& figures
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In
2002 spectators at the All England Club munched their way through
34,000 kilograms of strawberries.
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BBC
Outside Broadcasts installs 66,700 metres, or 41 miles of signal
cable.
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Last
year's most popular Wimbledon souvenir was towels - more than 12,000
were sold during the Championships.
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There
will be 54 cameras on site of which nine are robotic and eight are
Supermotion systems.
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The
BBC hoist is 72 metres tall (236 feet) and carries one manned camera,
one robotic and one locked off shot.
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Around
5,500 people visited the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum during the
2002 fortnight, including Venus and Serena Williams.
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Television
coverage is beamed to around 160 countries worldwide.
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The Championships stringing team strung a total of 2,032 rackets
last year.
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The fastest servers during the 2002 Championships were Andy Roddick
(144mph) and Venus Williams (119mph).
All the
BBC's digital services are now available on Freeview,
the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well
as on satellite and cable.
Freeview
offers the BBC's eight television channels, interactive services
from BBCi, as well as 11 BBC radio networks.
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