Immediately after the game, Ms. Izawa interviewed the players, "It was a great game that gathered a clapping of hands, wasn't it?"
Ms. Aoki replied, "It was absolutely bad! I was thinking about the timing when I should give up."
Mr. Mimura answered, "Although I was thinking that the white stone was ahead the game in the early stage, it was getting worse and worse. It was still bad in the ending stage. But from an unexpected chance..."
The champion pair's post-game analysis was rather self-effacing; however, there was a lot of laughing and clapping of hands at the site when Ms. Aoki answered to the question about the cause of winning, "It's only because we didn't give up."
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