{"id":36072,"date":"2025-09-19T16:24:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/france-axelle-berthoumieu-cited-for-alleged-bite-at-womens-rugby-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:24:48","slug":"france-axelle-berthoumieu-cited-for-alleged-bite-at-womens-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/france-axelle-berthoumieu-cited-for-alleged-bite-at-womens-rugby-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"France: Axelle Berthoumieu Cited for Alleged Bite at Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0914%2Fr1545673_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nFrance defeated Ireland 18-13 on Sunday.\n\nThe French national team player, Axelle Berthoumieu, has been cited by World Rugby after allegedly biting Ireland&#8217;s Aoife Wafer in the Women&#8217;s World Cup quarter-final match.\n\nIreland captain Sam Monaghan reported the incident to the referee after Wafer reported the bite during her team&#8217;s defeat.\n\nIreland led the score 13-0 in Exeter at the time of the alleged incident, and was heading to the semi-finals.\n\nHowever, France staged a spectacular comeback, winning 18-13 and securing a match against England next week.\n\nBerthoumieu could face a long suspension if found guilty.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I spoke with the referee. Aoife told me, I didn&#8217;t see it, but I spoke with the referee and asked him.<\/p><cite>Sam Monaghan<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nWorld Rugby confirmed on Sunday evening that Berthoumieu was cited for biting, while her teammate Manae Felu was cited for a dangerous tackle.\n\nThe cases will be judged on Monday.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France defeated Ireland 18-13 on Sunday. The French national team player, Axelle Berthoumieu, has been cited by World Rugby after allegedly biting Ireland&#8217;s Aoife Wafer in the Women&#8217;s World Cup quarter-final match. Ireland captain Sam Monaghan reported the incident to the referee after Wafer reported the bite during her team&#8217;s defeat. Ireland led the score [&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":[8743,684,511,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-36072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rugby","7":"tag-bite","8":"tag-france","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-rugby"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36072","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=36072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}