- Joined
- Nov 14, 2007
wth? Oda was arrested? total story requested.
Prior to the season 2007-8, one night on his way home after having some alcoholic beverages, Nobu was driving his moped when the police stopped him for alcohol in blood test (idk the appropriate word in English, does this make sense to you?) He was arrested by DUI, and it was a big news in Japan back then.
Figure Skating was already a big sport business by then because of Shizuka, Miki, Mao, Dai. Nobu was such a promising and adorable skater. People in Japan may tend to require their top athletes to be good role models not only in the sport, but in every aspects of Japanese society. His family's name is hugely famous as the successor of Nobunaga Oda (old Japanese Shogun?)...
There were a couple of reasons I guess, but Japanese media a sort of 'went crazy' about his DUI incident.
As a result, Nobu and his team had no other choice but skip the whole season.
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