Source: CCTV.com

02-07-2007 14:11

Special Report:   2008 Beijing Olympics

Jingjing celebrated her 1st anniversary in 2006

We turn to an unusual family of pandas at a breeding center in Sichuan. All of them have special links to the Olympics. And many of them are athletically inclined.

Jingjing is the youngest in the family, but the one-and-half year old is already good at wrestling. She was named after a panda celebrity, one of the five Beijing Olympic mascots.

US President Bush's brother Neil Bush and his son Pierce Bush took photo with Jingjing.

Jingjing's sister wasn't named until she was two. She was called Fuwa, referring to all five Beijing mascots.

But their parents' ties to athletics are more than just names.

Tour guide Zhao Ning said "Her mother Yaya was born on the first day of the 1990 Beijing Asian Games. And she is also the first surviving twin born from artificial insemination."

The father is the heaviest and best-built in the breeding center, and he was born 14 years ago during the Barcelona Games. The former Olympic chief Juan Antonio Samaranch was pleased by the coincidence, and named him Kobi.

The whole panda family lives in Chengdu, but not under the same roof. The kids have had to leave their parents to live on their own. But many are hoping for a reunion because people are fascinated by their Olympic ties.

 

Editor:Du Xiaodan