After losing to China by 56 points in the women’s basketball quarterfinals at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games, North Korea declined to hold a post-game press conference .It was the second consecutive day that the North Korean team missed a press conference after losing the Asian Games’ first table tennis final in 33 years. North Korea’s women’s basketball team suffered a crushing 44-100 loss to China in the quarterfinals of the tournament on Wednesday afternoon at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China .In the basketball event of the Games, the coach and players of the losing team are the first to come to the press conference to express their feelings. However, when the time was set, North Korea’s coach Jong Sung Shim did not appear, and after about seven minutes, the organizing committee officials verbally announced that there would be no press conference for North Korea. The North Korean players, who met with South Korean reporters in the joint press area after the match, also remained silent and headed to their locker rooms .North Korea had also missed an official press conference hosted by the organizers for the table tennis event the day before. At the start of the press conference, the organizers announced, “No athletes from the DPRK will be participating.” The day before, the North Korean pair of Cha Soo-yong and Park Soo-kyong lost to South Korea’s Shin Yubin and Jeon Jeon-hee in the women’s doubles final of the table tennis event at the Hangzhou Gungsu Canal Sports Park Gymnasium .It was the first inter-Korean table tennis final at an Asian Games in 33 years since the men’s team event at the 1990 Beijing Games. North Korea’s women’s basketball team struggled against China’s taller players on the day, with 205-centimeter center Park Jin-ah, born in 2003, not playing. North Korea grabbed 25 rebounds to China’s 52.They gave up 25 points and 15 rebounds to 6-foot-2 center Ri Weru alone .After failing to advance to the final, North Korea will head to the bronze medal game .If South Korea loses to Japan in the second game of the women’s basketball quarterfinals, they will play North Korea for the bronze medal. North and South Korea have not met for a medal since the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran, where women’s basketball was 스포츠토토존 first introduced.