{"id":101969,"date":"2025-08-29T23:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/101969\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T23:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:53:10","slug":"powys-village-three-cocks-censored-on-british-cycling-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/101969\/","title":{"rendered":"Powys village Three Cocks censored on British Cycling website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756379168_866_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/784b9320-84f8-11f0-b599-154efb9f3687.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Getty Images A road sign as you enter Three Cocks village warning people to drive carefully in English and Welsh.&#10;\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The autocorrect error appeared on the British Cycling website promoting a junior road race in Powys<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Britain&#8217;s official cycling body has apologised after accidentally censoring the name of a small Welsh village on its event listing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Three Cocks, in Powys, hosted two stages of a junior road race last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">But the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britishcycling.org.uk\/events\/details\/317766\/Ras-Ieuenctid-De-Cymru---Junior-Race-of-South-Wales\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">British Cycling website<\/a> listed the village as the word Three followed by five asterisks before later correcting the mistake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A spokesperson said the system decided to inappropriately &#8220;spare our blushes&#8221; when it automatically censored the name of the village.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The village hosted stages one and two of the national series which took place over the August Bank Holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Stage 1 was a 76km (47.5 miles) sprint circuit on rural roads around the village. The other featured a 10km (6 miles) time trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The other stages were held in neighbouring counties including Monmouthshire and Blaenau Gwent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">British Cycling said: &#8220;We apologise for this accidental censorship which was caused by some overly sensitive filters on our website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Whilst it&#8217;s great to see this fantastic event getting such national attention, we&#8217;ll be having a serious look at the new systems we&#8217;re implementing to ensure that technology doesn&#8217;t override common sense in future!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The autocorrect error appeared on the British Cycling website promoting a junior road race in Powys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-101969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101969","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=101969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}