{"id":815581,"date":"2026-10-27T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815581\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:42:09","slug":"freya-bell-ruled-out-of-wales-second-wxv-japan-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815581\/","title":{"rendered":"Freya Bell ruled out of Wales&#8217; second WXV Japan Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Centre Freya Bell will miss Wales&#8217; final international of 2026 after suffering a knee injury in last Saturday&#8217;s WXV Global Series match against Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bell, who turned 21 this week, was stretchered off in the 53rd minute of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cmvg6j9je3w4o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wales&#8217; 17-0 victory<\/a> at Tokyo&#8217;s Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium after falling awkwardly in a tackle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) has confirmed she will miss this Saturday&#8217;s second Test against the Sakura Fifteen in Kumagaya City (07:00 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The WRU said Bell is currently awaiting the results of a scan, with the full extent of her injury to be assessed on her return home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She will remain in Japan and fly back with the squad on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Centre Freya Bell will miss Wales&#8217; final international of 2026 after suffering a knee injury in last Saturday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-815581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}