{"id":35966,"date":"2025-09-19T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/womens-rugby-world-cup-berthoumieus-ban-reduced-for-biting-opponent\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:00:47","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-berthoumieus-ban-reduced-for-biting-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/womens-rugby-world-cup-berthoumieus-ban-reduced-for-biting-opponent\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: Berthoumieu&#8217;s ban reduced for biting opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Axelle Berthoumieu&#8217;s Suspension Reduced for Bite at Rugby World Cup<\/h2>\n\nFrench rugby player Axelle Berthoumieu has had her suspension reduced for biting a rival during the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup quarter-final match against Ireland.\n\nInitially, Berthoumieu was sanctioned with a 12-match suspension, but after an appeal, the sanction was reduced to nine matches.\n\nBerthoumieu admitted to having bitten Aoife Wafer during France&#8217;s 18-13 victory in the match held at Sandy Park.\n\nAn independent disciplinary commission determined on Tuesday that the initial suspension was too long 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=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>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. Alex Davidson &#8211; World Rugby\/World Rugby v\u00eda Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\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 third-place match the following weekend.\n\nHer teammate in France, Manae Feleu, was also ruled out for the rest of the tournament due to a three-match suspension for a dangerous tackle.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axelle Berthoumieu&#8217;s Suspension Reduced for Bite at Rugby World Cup French rugby player Axelle Berthoumieu has had her suspension reduced for biting a rival during the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup quarter-final match against Ireland. Initially, Berthoumieu was sanctioned with a 12-match suspension, but after an appeal, the sanction was reduced to nine matches. Berthoumieu admitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[8891,2764,8764,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-35966","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\/35966","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=35966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}