(School of Physical Education,Shanxi Normal University,Linfen 041000,China) Abstract: By using the path dependence theory by Douglass C. North, the author dissected the running mechanism of the competitive sports system in China, analyzed the negative effects of path dependence existing in the competi-tive sports system in China, and probed into how to form path crossing over in terms of strengthening theoretical study of the competitive sports system, speeding up the construction and perfection of the legal system of sports, guiding various main bodies of interests to return to the value rationality that bases its core on national cohesion, fully respecting the interests of various main bodies, and going the way to change the system in a gradually devel-oped, multi-element involved and socialized way. Key words: science of sport administration;competitive sports system in China;path dependence |