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09.06.03

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Facts & figures


• In 2002 spectators at the All England Club munched their way through 34,000 kilograms of strawberries.


• Ö÷²¥´óÐã Outside Broadcasts installs 66,700 metres, or 41 miles of signal cable.


• Last year's most popular Wimbledon souvenir was towels - more than 12,000 were sold during the Championships.


• There will be 54 cameras on site of which nine are robotic and eight are Supermotion systems.


• The Ö÷²¥´óÐã hoist is 72 metres tall (236 feet) and carries one manned camera, one robotic and one locked off shot.


• Around 5,500 people visited the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum during the 2002 fortnight, including Venus and Serena Williams.


• Television coverage is beamed to around 160 countries worldwide.


• The Championships stringing team strung a total of 2,032 rackets last year.


• The fastest servers during the 2002 Championships were Andy Roddick (144mph) and Venus Williams (119mph).


All the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's digital services are now available on , the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well as on satellite and cable.

Freeview offers the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's eight television channels, interactive services from Ö÷²¥´óÐãi, as well as 11 Ö÷²¥´óÐã radio networks.


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