{"id":223873,"date":"2025-06-29T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T11:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223873\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T11:31:09","slug":"bordeaux-explain-why-louis-bielle-biarreys-top-14-final-was-cut-short-planet-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223873\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordeaux explain why Louis Bielle-Biarrey’s Top 14 final was cut short : Planet Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bordeaux have shed light on why Louis Bielle-Biarrey had his Top 14 final appearance ended just minutes into the second half of a classic encounter with Toulouse.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The recently crowned first-time Champions Cup champions were looking to complete the 2024\/25 double but they eventually ran out of steam, losing 33-39 after extra time<\/a> following a helter-skelter night of entertainment in Paris.<\/p>\n

Bielle-Biarrey\u2019s fitness was the subject of much commentary coming into the final as he hadn\u2019t played since a June 7 concussion sustained against Vannes. Bordeaux boss Yannick Bru suggested after last weekend\u2019s semi-final win over Toulon that the winger wouldn\u2019t be available for the final.<\/p>\n

That prognosis changed early in the week and Bielle-Biarrey was named at No.11 to face Toulouse<\/a>. \u201cAt the start of this week, he met a lot of specialists; he scored 10\/10 in his neurological tests,\u201d Bru told reporters in the lead-up to the final.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Top 14<\/a> showpiece didn\u2019t go well for the recently turned 22-year-old, though, as he lasted less than 42 minutes, but Bordeaux insisted this curtailed appearance had nothing to do with his recent concussion symptoms.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was extremely painful\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the second (half) kick-off, he took a huge headbutt to his pelvis,\u201d Bru explained. \u201cIt was extremely painful, it prevented him from running, but it has nothing to do with the rest [the concussion he suffered in early June].\u201d<\/p>\n

The other major injury story that emerged from the final was Toulouse fly-half Romain Ntamack, who suffered a shoulder injury. \u201cHis mouthguard beeped at first (to detect the risk of concussion),\u201d explained Ugo Mola, the Toulouse boss.<\/p>\n

Ntamack passed his resulting head injury assessment and returned to the field, but he was soon permanently off. \u201cHe took a shock to the shoulder on contact. He could no longer shake hands, so we didn\u2019t take any risks,\u201d Mola added.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Five takeaways as Thomas Ramos stays cool in extra-time heat while \u2018exquisite\u2019 Jack Willis sends Lions reminder in \u2018gladiatorial\u2019 Top 14 final<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bordeaux have shed light on why Louis Bielle-Biarrey had his Top 14 final appearance ended just minutes into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[36,225,88371,12,35532,4151,79,5707,2385,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-223873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-france","9":"tag-home-page","10":"tag-louis-bielle-biarrey","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-romain-ntamack","13":"tag-rugby","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-top-14","16":"tag-toulouse","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114766432550138357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}