{"id":34699,"date":"2025-09-15T05:38:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/berthoumieu-from-france-cited-for-bite-at-womens-rugby-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T05:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:38:22","slug":"berthoumieu-from-france-cited-for-bite-at-womens-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/berthoumieu-from-france-cited-for-bite-at-womens-rugby-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Berthoumieu, from France, cited for bite at Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0914%2Fr1545673_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nFrance defeated Ireland with a score of 18-13 on Sunday in a high-caliber match.\n\nFrance&#8217;s third-row player Axelle Berthoumieu has been cited by World Rugby following an alleged incident in which she bit Ireland&#8217;s Aoife Wafer during the Women&#8217;s World Cup quarter-final match.\n\nIreland captain Sam Monaghan reported to the match referee what happened after Wafer reported the bite during her team&#8217;s defeat.\n\nAt the time of the supposed incident, Ireland was heading to the semi-finals, leading the score 13-0 in Exeter. However, France staged a spectacular comeback, securing the 18-13 victory and a place in the semi-final against England next week.\n\nBerthoumieu could face a long suspension if found guilty.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I spoke to the referee. Aoife told me, I didn&#8217;t see it myself, but I spoke to the referee and asked him.<\/p><cite>Sam Monaghan<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nWorld Rugby confirmed on Sunday evening that Berthoumieu was cited for biting, while her teammate Manae Felu was cited for a dangerous tackle.\n\nThe cases will be judged on Monday.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France defeated Ireland with a score of 18-13 on Sunday in a high-caliber match. France&#8217;s third-row player Axelle Berthoumieu has been cited by World Rugby following an alleged incident in which she bit Ireland&#8217;s Aoife Wafer during the Women&#8217;s World Cup quarter-final match. Ireland captain Sam Monaghan reported to the match referee what happened after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[8743,684,511,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-34699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-bite","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-rugby"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}