{"id":36984,"date":"2025-09-21T05:29:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/womens-rugby-world-cup-berthoumieus-bite-sanction-reduced-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T05:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:29:19","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-berthoumieus-bite-sanction-reduced-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/womens-rugby-world-cup-berthoumieus-bite-sanction-reduced-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: Berthoumieu&#8217;s Bite Sanction Reduced"},"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 in the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup quarter-final match. Initially, the suspension was for twelve matches, but after an appeal, it has been reduced to nine.\n\nBerthoumieu admitted to biting Aoife Wafer, of the Ireland team, during France&#8217;s 18-13 victory in the match played at Sandy Park on Sunday. The action was considered a red card by the independent review committee that met on Monday, although the player disputed the severity of the sanction.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The 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.<\/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=\"Axelle Berthoumieu\" 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 not be able to participate in the World Cup anymore, missing the semi-final match against England and the final or the third-place match the following weekend.\n\nAdditionally, her 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&#8217;s Suspension Reduced for Bite at Rugby World Cup French rugby player Axelle Berthoumieu has had her suspension reduced for biting a rival in the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup quarter-final match. Initially, the suspension was for twelve matches, but after an appeal, it has been reduced to nine. Berthoumieu admitted to biting Aoife Wafer, [&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":[8891,2764,8764,518],"class_list":{"0":"post-36984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rugby","7":"tag-axelle-berthoumieu","8":"tag-ban","9":"tag-biting","10":"tag-rugby-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36984","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=36984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}