{"id":35670,"date":"2025-09-18T05:41:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/womens-rugby-world-cup-berthoumieus-bite-penalty-reduced\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T05:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:41:28","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-berthoumieus-bite-penalty-reduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/womens-rugby-world-cup-berthoumieus-bite-penalty-reduced\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: Berthoumieu&#8217;s Bite Penalty Reduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Axelle Berthoumieu&#8217;s Suspension Reduced for Bite at Rugby World Cup<\/h2>\n\nFrench player Axelle Berthoumieu, who was sanctioned for biting an opponent in the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup quarter-final match, has had her suspension reduced.\n\nInitially, the imposed sanction was twelve matches, but after an appeal, it has been reduced to nine matches.\n\nBerthoumieu admitted to biting Aoife Wafer during France&#8217;s 18-13 victory over Ireland in the match held at Sandy Park.\n\nThe player acknowledged that her action deserved a red card, but disputed the severity of the sanction.\n\nAn independent disciplinary commission determined that the initial 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, left, admitted to biting Irish star Aoife Wafer during France&#8217;s quarter-final victory in the World Cup on Sunday.\n\nBerthoumieu will not be able to participate in the remainder of the World Cup, missing the semi-final against England and the final or the match for third place.\n\nIn addition, her teammate Manae Feleu was also ruled out of the tournament due to a three-match ban for a dangerous tackle.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axelle Berthoumieu&#8217;s Suspension Reduced for Bite at Rugby World Cup French player Axelle Berthoumieu, who was sanctioned for biting an opponent in the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup quarter-final match, has had her suspension reduced. Initially, the imposed sanction was twelve matches, but after an appeal, it has been reduced to nine matches. Berthoumieu admitted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[8891,2764,8764,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-35670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-axelle-berthoumieu","9":"tag-ban","10":"tag-biting","11":"tag-rugby"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35670","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=35670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}