Giant panda cubs in France get celebrity godparents Mbappe and Zhang Jiaqi
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Two giant panda cubs in France have been given their official names in a celebrity naming event. France's World Cup-winning footballer Kylian Mbappe and China's Olympic diving gold medallist Zhang Jiaqi were presented as the godparents of the young bears at a zoo in central France.
The cubs had French names when they were born but have now been renamed Huanlili and Yuandudu, meaning "happy" and "cute and chubby" respectively.
The pandas at Beauval Zoo, which is more than 200km south of Paris, are on loan from China as a sign of friendship between the two countries. The little cubs were born in August. Their mother, Huan Huan, arrived in France in 2012.
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