Discussion: Hanging

Hanging is explicitly allowed.

Sounds menacing!

Hanging on Wikipedia.

It could be a punishment for following. ;-)

Well, that's a bad translation. In Swiss German anhängen (to adhere, to attach) is the equivalent of the American expression following. Most Swiss orienteers survive the races alright. Switzerland doesn't have the death penalty like certain other countries do.

so it should be onhanging? ;-)
Well, "hang on" doesn't sound too wrong...

following...is what it should say.

Hanging on (on-hanging) makes sense in English, too, though.

In most O races "hanging" is prohibited. The question is: should the penalty for hanging match the crime?

Bunch of dogmatists :-)
All your guesses were wrong: It is just not english but swenglisch, because the swedish say hänging for following and mix it up sometimes.