{"id":8563,"date":"2012-03-04T14:52:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T12:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/rugby-rebel-byrnes-banned-10-weeks-for-eye-gouging\/"},"modified":"2012-03-04T14:52:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T12:52:18","slug":"rugby-rebel-byrnes-banned-10-weeks-for-eye-gouging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-rebel-byrnes-banned-10-weeks-for-eye-gouging\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Rebel Byrnes banned 10 weeks for eye-gouging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">MELBOURNE, March 4<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Melbourne Rebels lock<br \/>\nAdam Byrnes has been banned for 10 weeks for eye-gouging during<br \/>\nFriday&#8217;s Super Rugby match against the New South Wales Waratahs.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Byrnes made contact with the right eye of Waratahs&#8217; Tom<br \/>\nCarter, governing body SANZAR said in a statement on Sunday,<br \/>\nciting medical evidence and written testimony by Carter.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Medical evidence was presented that demonstrated that Mr<br \/>\nCarter had sustained a minor scratch to the eye but was<br \/>\notherwise uninjured,&#8221; SANZAR said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The minimum penalty was 12 weeks for that kind of offence<br \/>\nbut it was reduced in light of the players&#8217; previously<br \/>\nunblemished record, SANZAR added.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Byrnes will be banned from all forms of rugby until May 13.<br \/>\n (Reporting by Ian Ransom; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please double-click on:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>for more rugby stories<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, March 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Melbourne Rebels lock Adam Byrnes has been banned for 10 weeks for eye-gouging during Friday&#8217;s Super Rugby match against the New South Wales Waratahs. Byrnes made contact with the right eye of Waratahs&#8217; Tom Carter, governing body SANZAR said in a statement on Sunday, citing medical evidence and written testimony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}