{"id":35359,"date":"2025-09-17T05:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/womens-rugby-berthoumieu-suspended-for-bite-appeals-sanction-at-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T05:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:40:05","slug":"womens-rugby-berthoumieu-suspended-for-bite-appeals-sanction-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/womens-rugby-berthoumieu-suspended-for-bite-appeals-sanction-at-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby: Berthoumieu Suspended for Bite; Appeals Sanction at World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Axelle Berthoumieu Appeals Suspension for Bite at Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup<\/h2>\n\nFrench player Axelle Berthoumieu admitted to biting Ireland&#8217;s Aoife Wafer during the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup quarter-final match, but appealed her 12-match suspension on Monday.\n\nFrance captain Mana\u00e9 Feleu also appealed a three-match suspension, which could rule her out of the World Cup semi-final against England and the final or third-place play-off.\n\nThe admission of Berthoumieu took place in a review hearing for foul play. The panel said it accepted that his bite merited a red card and that the off-field citation was justified.\n\nNo action was taken against him in the field at that time.\n\nWafer accused Berthoumieu of biting his arm during France&#8217;s 18-13 victory on Sunday in Exeter. The referee referred it to the Television Match Official to review the images.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Upon reviewing the live incident, the TMO could not determine clear and obvious foul play and did not have the benefit of additional evidence presentations to corroborate.<\/p><cite>World Rugby<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBerthomieu was cited after the match by the citation commissioner.\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 el domingo.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nFor the sanction, the panel began the suspension in 18 games and deducted six.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Although the player acknowledged the foul play and expressed remorse, she was not given full mitigation due to the seriousness of the player&#8217;s actions and the fact that the player had the opportunity not to continue with the action.<\/p><cite>World Rugby<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBerthomieu appealed against the length of the 12-match suspension, which would keep her out of the rest of the World Cup and prevent her from playing until March 1st.\n\nYour appeal will be heard on Tuesday.\n\nWith 27 international matches since her debut in 2019, including France&#8217;s four matches in this World Cup, the first for her.\n\nFeleu, who leads Les Bleues in their second World Cup, was cited for a dangerous tackle that was not sanctioned on the field. In her hearing, she accepted that there was foul play, but did not believe it deserved a citation.\n\nBut the panel found her guilty of head-to-head contact at high speed without mitigation.\n\nYour appeal will also be heard on Tuesday against a suspension that threatens to be a harsh blow to France&#8217;s title hopes.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axelle Berthoumieu Appeals Suspension for Bite at Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup French player Axelle Berthoumieu admitted to biting Ireland&#8217;s Aoife Wafer during the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup quarter-final match, but appealed her 12-match suspension on Monday. France captain Mana\u00e9 Feleu also appealed a three-match suspension, which could rule her out of the World Cup semi-final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[8763,203,110,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-35359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-berthoumieu","9":"tag-rugby","10":"tag-suspension","11":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35359","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=35359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}