{"id":35674,"date":"2025-09-18T05:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/womens-rugby-axelle-berthoumieu-12-match-ban-for-biting-an-irish-player\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T05:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:42:20","slug":"womens-rugby-axelle-berthoumieu-12-match-ban-for-biting-an-irish-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/womens-rugby-axelle-berthoumieu-12-match-ban-for-biting-an-irish-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby: Axelle Berthoumieu, 12-match ban for biting an Irish player."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Axelle Berthoumieu Appeals Suspension for Bite at Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup<\/h2>\n\nFrench rugby player Axelle Berthoumieu has admitted to biting Ireland&#8217;s Aoife Wafer during the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup quarter-final match, but has appealed her 12-match suspension.\n\nFrench captain Mana\u00e9 Feleu is also appealing a three-match suspension, which could rule her out of the semi-final against England and the final or the third-place play-off.\n\nBerthoumieu&#8217;s admission came at a review hearing for foul play. The panel determined that he accepted that his bite merited a red card and that the off-field citation was justified.\n\nNo action was taken against her on 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 the incident to the Television Match Official (TMO) to review the images.\n\nWorld Rugby stated in a statement: &#8220;Upon reviewing the matter live, the TMO was unable to determine a clear and obvious foul and did not have the benefit of additional evidence submissions to corroborate.&#8221;\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>&#8220;Although the player acknowledged the foul play and expressed remorse, full mitigation was not given 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,&#8221; World Rugby stated.<\/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\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><p>Scotland&#8217;s World Cup exit sees players demand change<\/p><\/li><li><p>Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup highlights the gap between haves and have-nots<\/p><\/li><li><p>England beat Scotland and prepare for semi-final clash with France<\/p><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nBerthomieu, 25 years old, has played 27 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\nHowever, 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 major 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 rugby player Axelle Berthoumieu has admitted to biting Ireland&#8217;s Aoife Wafer during the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup quarter-final match, but has appealed her 12-match suspension. French captain Mana\u00e9 Feleu is also appealing a three-match suspension, which could rule her out of the semi-final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[8764,203,110,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-35674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rugby","7":"tag-biting","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-suspension","10":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35674","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=35674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}