But I think Oda overall has done well for Japan --winning both his GPs in 2009, getting silvers in both in 2010 and getting silvers int the last two GPF finals. The WC bomb was his only major error (I believe the talk is that he just found out his girlfriend was pregnant, hence creating a bit of emotional stress because I think he didn't tell anyone he was dating someone.
That's not quite right. Nobunari was dating his girlfriend since 2005 and was very open about it. In 2006 there was a program where he, together with a news anchor, visited a jewelry shop to chose a set of rings for himself and his girlfriend to celebrate their one year anniversary. In another, when asked about his future plans he said that after the Olympics he would like to buy a house, get married, have 5 children and a huge dog.
In an interview recently Morozov mentioned that Nobunari learned about his girlfriend pregnancy shortly before Olympics, which made him a bit scatterbrained. Afterwards he was so annoyed at himself for the shoelace incident and not doing his best that he was determined to make up for it at Worlds. In result, he overtrained himself; and that, combined with the high pressure he put on himself, made him implode at Worlds.