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Come Fan with UsTuesday, August 18, 2026

Meet Your New Favorite Figure Skater, Nobunari Oda

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Japan's Nobunari Oda, a mere slip of a lad at 17, just finished his short figure skating program and is sitting pretty at third in the current standings. Here's why you should care:

• Rocking the fiercest eyebrows in the sport, he bears an uncanny resemblance to a young Count Chocula.
• Via the NBC broadcast, we learn he has an arrest record -- for drunk driving on a moped.
This: "Japan's Nobunari Oda is a direct descendant of Nobuanaga Oda, a famous Japanese warlord during the sixteenth century."

↵Team Oda!

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