Denis Ten has basically been so fragile with injuries it sometimes seems like he's bubble gumed or duct taped together. I doubt he would deliberately crash into Hanyu or anyone else. This type of blatant crashing has been addressed several times in the media and skaters have said " it simply does not happen."
Ten was in the wrong but quite frankly, Yuzuru has a sense of entitlement ( hush about his damn music playing) that might be part of the problem. He fully expected Denis to stop in his tracks but nobody does that. Most skaters have a general sense of mindfulness about other skaters but none of them plan on kissing Yuzuru's ass.
Denis as well as other skaters should perhaps make a more deliberate attempt to show to the skater who has right of way a deliberate clearing of passage but Yuzuru is the one who had the bloodied crash during a warmup at another competition, not Denis. I seriously doubt that Denis who's been on the injured list repeatedly would would try and get in Yuzuru's way. He's the size of a female gymnast for shits sake anyway... Sounds like an intense, practice session.
BTW, remember Tracy Wilson going on and on during the TSL interview about YUZURU ALMOST CRASHING INTO A SKATER and being so nice to the skater and compassionate? I believe the other skater was acting like king of all assholes but Yuzuru supposedly was the consummate gentleman... TUH....
This. There was talk about this kind of stuff in Sochi as well, where skaters like Yuna Kim would get pissed cause skaters wouldn't clear the way for them.
Additionally, there was one incident on the practice session where I think Julia Lipnitskaya was running her program and Sotnikova was doing a spin, and did not stop her spin to move. She wasn't the only one. Lots of girls were very aggressive on those practice sessions. If you get into the habit of moving, people start assuming you'd move and stop moving themselves, and you end up getting less accomplished in that time than you should have.
Mutual Respect is a huge part of what makes crowded freestyle sessions work out. Problems arise at competitions like this because you don't have hierarchies of skill on packed practices like this. It's a ton of top skaters with many accomplishments. They all think they're top dog.
This happened to me when I was a lower level skater. I would always stand at the boards to avoid getting in the higher level skaters' way. When I got "better" and needed more room to do things, they'd always assume that I'd move for them, so they'd never yield. It wasn't until a few games of chicken and a lot of B**** Faces that they decided to give me the same respect on the ice that I gave (and give) them.
Until then, I'd skate 2-3 hours and spend 2+ hours circling because I had to move out of their way when they wanted to do a jump, spin, pattern, section, whatever in the spot I was aiming for...
In addition, if you are doing something like spinning, often you're dizzy when you come out of the spin. Trying to dodge someone can often be more dangerous than if they just went around you. What if you're spinning and dodge the other way, but someone was coming that way as well? Would have been safer to just keep spinning and have both of them navigate around you. If someone's mid-spin, and you're just skating; program or not, it's almost always safer for you to go around them because their spatial awareness is not as good as yours in that situation.
You can't expect people to simply know where you are at all times simply because your program is playing. You cannot expect them to stand at the boards and just wait until your program is over, either...
On sessions here, skaters are taught to go around other people who are on the ice and in the way, even if they're running a program.
Having the right of way does not mean that people just magically pop out of spins to bail that patch of the ice, just cause you're coming.
