{"id":36069,"date":"2025-09-19T16:23:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/womens-rugby-world-cup-berthoumieus-ban-reduced-for-biting\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:23:55","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-berthoumieus-ban-reduced-for-biting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/womens-rugby-world-cup-berthoumieus-ban-reduced-for-biting\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: Berthoumieu&#8217;s ban reduced for biting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Axelle Berthoumieu Reduces Sanction for Bite at Rugby World Cup<\/h2>\n\nFrench rugby player Axelle Berthoumieu has had her 12-match ban reduced to 9 matches after appealing the sanction imposed for biting a rival in the World Cup quarter-final match against Ireland.\n\nBerthoumieu admitted to biting Aoife Wafer during the 18-13 victory in the match played on Sunday at Sandy Park. The action was considered a red card by the independent foul play review committee on Monday, but the player disputed the severity of the initial sanction.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The independent disciplinary committee determined that, due to a procedural error, the original suspension was too long, resulting in a reduction of three matches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\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=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nAxelle Berthoumieu, on the left, admitted to biting Irish star Aoife Wafer during France&#8217;s quarter-final victory at the World Cup on Sunday.\n\nBerthoumieu will no longer participate in the World Cup, missing the semi-final match on Saturday against England and the final or the third-place match the following weekend.\n\nHer French teammate Manae Feleu has also been ruled out of the rest of the tournament due to a three-match suspension for a dangerous tackle.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axelle Berthoumieu Reduces Sanction for Bite at Rugby World Cup French rugby player Axelle Berthoumieu has had her 12-match ban reduced to 9 matches after appealing the sanction imposed for biting a rival in the World Cup quarter-final match against Ireland. Berthoumieu admitted to biting Aoife Wafer during the 18-13 victory in the match played [&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":[2764,8763,8764,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-36069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rugby","7":"tag-ban","8":"tag-berthoumieu","9":"tag-biting","10":"tag-rugby"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36069","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=36069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}