Fig 1.
Research framework diagram.
Table 1.
The evaluation index system for the sustainable development of competitive sports in China.
Table 2.
Decision matrix from the experts’ judgement.
Table 3.
The results of the target attribute Pij obtained by Entropy.
Table 4.
The results of entropy measure (Ej), rank (dj) and weight (Wj) obtained by Entropy.
Table 5.
The statistical values of the indexes from 2013 to 2020 by regions in China.
Table 6.
The results of the weighting matrix obtained from the TOPSIS.
Table 7.
The results of the comprehensive evaluation of the sustainability of competitive sports in each region of China from 2013 to 2020.
Table 8.
Scores and rankings of sustainable development of competitive sports by region in China.
Table 9.
The average score clustering of the level of sustainable development of competitive sports in each province.
Fig 2.
The cluster distribution of the average level of regional sustainable development of competitive sports in China [50].
Note: The online version is a color chart.
Fig 3.
The 3-D trend of sustainable development of competitive sports in China’s provincial areas (top ten).
Fig 4.
The score comparison of the subsystem of drivers of the sustainable development of competitive sports in each region of China.
Fig 5.
The comparison of the scores of the pressure subsystem for the sustainable Development of the competitive sports in each region of China.
Fig 6.
The comparison of the state subsystem scores of the sustainable development of the competitive sports in each region of China.
Fig 7.
The comparison of the impact subsystem scores of the sustainable development of the competitive sports in different regions of China.
Fig 8.
The comparison of the impact subsystem scores of the sustainable development of the competitive sports in different regions of China.