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Too many skaters in the rink at the same time. I guess. There should be some protocol to prevent this ever again.Thanks for all the updates. Good to know they are all doing well, I think the sight of blood on ice shook everyone up and the fact it is between Hanyu and HanYan made the story even bigger.
The thing is this has happened before at Cup of China 2012 with Nan Song and Adam Rippon had a bad clash during warm up. Nan Song fainted even and had to withdraw from the event, and I seem to recall reading somewhere he suffered a short memory loss right after. It may be in less dramatic fashion than this here, no blood, bandages and luckily nothing drastic came out of it, but it does raise an important matter of safety for the skaters. Need to warm up with greater care. I recall Hanyu had similar incident with Patrick at the Sochi Gala. His blade accidentally nicked Patrick's abdomen/chest pretty bad, it was an accident obviously, but if that happened before the competition, gosh... the consequence is dire.