{"id":35126,"date":"2025-09-16T16:48:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/berthoumieu-sanction-reduced-for-bite-at-womens-rugby-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:48:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:48:33","slug":"berthoumieu-sanction-reduced-for-bite-at-womens-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/berthoumieu-sanction-reduced-for-bite-at-womens-rugby-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Berthoumieu: Sanction reduced for bite at Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Axelle Berthoumieu&#8217;s Sanction Reduced for Biting at Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup<\/h2>\n\nFrench rugby player Axelle Berthoumieu has had her suspension reduced for biting a rival in the World Cup quarter-final match against Ireland. Initially, the sanction was 12 matches, but after an appeal, it has been reduced to nine.\n\nBerthoumieu admitted to biting Aoife Wafer during France&#8217;s 18-13 victory in the match played on Sunday at Sandy Park. This incident was considered a red card by the foul play review committee.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>England&#8217;s selection will face France in the semi-finals after defeating Scotland.<\/li>\n<li>Berthoumieu received an initial 12-match ban for biting the Irish player.<\/li>\n<li>France secured their place in the semi-finals with a spectacular comeback.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nAn independent disciplinary committee determined on Tuesday that the original suspension was too extensive due to a procedural error, resulting in a reduction of three matches.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0915%2Fr1546183_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Axelle Berthoumieu, izquierda, admiti\u00f3 haber mordido a la estrella irlandesa Aoife Wafer durante la victoria de Francia en los cuartos de final de la Copa del Mundo del domingo.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nAxelle Berthoumieu, on the left, admitted to biting Irish star Aoife Wafer during France&#8217;s quarter-final World Cup victory on Sunday.\n\nBerthoumieu will not be able to participate in the remainder of the World Cup, missing the semi-final match against England and the final or the third-place match the following weekend.\n\nIn addition, her teammate in France, Manae Feleu, has also been excluded from the rest of the tournament due to a three-match ban for a dangerous tackle.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axelle Berthoumieu&#8217;s Sanction Reduced for Biting at Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup French rugby player Axelle Berthoumieu has had her suspension reduced for biting a rival in the World Cup quarter-final match against Ireland. Initially, the sanction was 12 matches, but after an appeal, it has been reduced to nine. Berthoumieu admitted to biting Aoife Wafer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[2764,8763,8764,518],"class_list":{"0":"post-35126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-ban","9":"tag-berthoumieu","10":"tag-biting","11":"tag-rugby-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35126","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=35126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}