A 17-year-old amateur rugby player has died after suffering an on-field injury during a match in France.<\/p>\n
Clea Menier – a back row for Union du Bassin Marmandais – died after what her club said was an “accident” during an under-18s match against Agen Agglo Rugby on Saturday.<\/p>\n
After receiving medical attention on the field, the teenager was taken to Pellegrin Hospital in Bordeaux, where she died from her injuries.<\/p>\n
Neither the club nor the French Rugby Federation (FFR) have disclosed the nature of her injury.<\/p>\n
“It is with immense sadness and indescribable pain that Union du Bassin Marmandais learned of the death of Clea,” the club said in a statement, which paid tribute to the emergency services who treated her.<\/p>\n
“We are also thinking of her loved ones and friends, whose immense pain we share, as well as her team-mates, coaches, and everyone who had the privilege of knowing her and sharing their passion for rugby with her.<\/p>\n
“This is a terrible ordeal for our club. We will get through it together – united, standing in solidarity, and looking after one another.”<\/p>\n
The FFR said: “This loss has deeply shaken the entire rugby family.<\/p>\n
“In these moments of sadness, the FFR wishes to express its full support and solidarity to Clea’s family and loved ones.<\/p>\n
“It also extends its sincerest condolences to her team-mates, coaches, and all members of Union du Bassin Marmandais.<\/p>\n
“Every effort will be made to understand the circumstances surrounding this accident.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old amateur rugby player has died after suffering an on-field injury during a match in France. Clea…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-942195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}