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A study on factors influencing digital sports participation among Chinese secondary school students based on explainable machine learning

Comparison of baseline variables between the two groups Detailed results are presented in Table 2. The participation of secondary school students in Digital Sports has resulted in two distinct groups: participants (n = 1007) and non-participants (n = 3918). Statistically significant differences (P < 0.05) were observed between the two groups in the following variables: gender, stage of secondary school, academic performance, […]

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Comparison of baseline variables between the two groups

Detailed results are presented in Table 2. The participation of secondary school students in Digital Sports has resulted in two distinct groups: participants (n = 1007) and non-participants (n = 3918). Statistically significant differences (P < 0.05) were observed between the two groups in the following variables: gender, stage of secondary school, academic performance, self-assessed physical health, interest in ICT, perceived ICT competence, ICT Social Perception, mother’s education, father’s education, parents’ voluntary participation in sports, family wealth, ICT available at home, ICT available at school, Digital Teaching Training Level for Teachers, index proportion of all teachers with ISCED5A Master’s qualifications, and Weekly Number of Physical Education Days. No statistically significant differences (P > 0.05) were found for the following variables: BMI, body image, ICT autonomy, ISEI of mother, ISEI of father, parents’ emotional support, Home cultural possessions, home educational resources, whether School Digital Teaching Discussions with Staff, and school type.

Table 2 Comparison of basic characteristics of the participating and non-participating groups.

Multilevel logistic regression results

16 variables with P < 0.05 from univariate analysis were included in the multilevel logistic regression model, with Table 3 presenting the results. The null model revealed significant between-school random variation in secondary school students’ likelihood of Digital Sports participation [σ_u² = 0.26 (0.05), P < 0.001]. The ICC value indicated that 7.4% of the variance in Digital Sports behavior probability was attributable to school-level factors, justifying the use of multilevel modeling. Model 1 demonstrated significant positive correlations of weekly physical education class days (P < 0.001) and school ICT resources (P < 0.001) with Digital Sports engagement, accounting for 24.98% of between-school variance. However, neither digital training for teachers (P = 0.275) nor the proportion of teachers with master’s degrees (P = 0.172) showed significant associations. Model 2 identified significant student- and family-level predictors after adjusting for school-level variables (weekly physical education class days and school ICT resources). Even after controlling for student and family variables, weekly physical education class days (AOR 1.30, 95% CI 1.16–1.46) and school ICT resources (AOR 1.06, 95% CI 1.02–1.10) remained significantly positively correlated with Digital Sports participation. The final Model 3 highlighted household ICT resources (AOR 1.08, 95% CI 1.04–1.13) and students’ ICT social perception (AOR 1.18, 95% CI 1.07–1.30) as significant positive correlates, whereas academic performance exhibited a significant negative correlation (AOR 0.995, 95% CI 0.994–0.996).

Table 3 Results of Stepwise logistic regression.

Model development and hyperparameter optimization

The five variables with P < 0.05 in the multilevel logistic regression were selected as input variables for model construction. After data standardization, the dataset was divided into training and test sets at a ratio of 85% (n = 4186) to 15% (n = 739). The grid search method exhaustively evaluates all possible combinations within specified parameter ranges to identify the globally optimal parameter configuration, thereby significantly enhancing the model’s generalization ability and computational efficiency. To optimize model performance, GridSearchCV combined with 5-fold cross-validation was employed for hyperparameter tuning of K-nearest neighbors (KNN), Gaussian naive Bayes (GNB), gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT), and logistic regression (LR). The optimized key parameters for each model are presented in Table 4, while non-critical parameters were set to their default values.

Table 4 Optimal hyperparameter combinations for each algorithm.

Model performance comparison

As shown in Table 5, the AUC values of GNB, GBDT, KNN, and LR models on the test set were 0.700, 0.641, 0.707, and 0.717, respectively. In this study, the AUC values of GNB, KNN, and LR models all exceeded 0.7, indicating their good discriminative performance in predicting secondary school students’ digital sports participation. Figure 2 presents the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves of the four prediction models, where the x-axis represents the false positive rate (FPR) and the y-axis denotes the true positive rate (TPR). Points closer to the top-left corner indicate higher model accuracy. The area under the ROC curve (AUC) reflects the predictive performance of the models, with larger AUC values indicating higher prediction accuracy. Among the primary models, the LR model performed best; however, as logistic regression is a linear model, it may fail to capture the nonlinear relationships between variables and the outcome. Therefore, this study constructed an ensemble stacking model using the LR model as the meta-model and GNB and KNN models as base models to enhance the interpretability of the conclusions. As shown in Table 5, the stacking model achieved an AUC of 0.723, outperforming the LR model and demonstrating better performance in terms of the F1 score.

Table 5 Test set model results.

Explainability analysis

After completing the model development, explainability analysis was conducted on the best-performing Stacking model using the SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) method. This analysis included global explanation of variable impacts and individual variable dependency explanation.

Global explanation of variable impacts

Figure 3a ranks the relative importance of the five influencing factors from high to low based on their mean absolute SHAP values: academic performance, weekly physical education class days, household ICT resources, school ICT resources, and ICT social perception. Among these, the SHAP mean values of academic performance and weekly physical education class days are significantly higher than those of other factors, indicating their importance as key determinants.

Figure 3b presents the SHAP beeswarm plot, where each point represents a sample distributed along the y-axis, and the horizontal position reflects its impact on the prediction outcome. The color gradient (red for high values, blue for low values) reveals that lower academic performance, more weekly physical education class days, richer household ICT resources, more sufficient school ICT resources, and higher ICT social perception are all significantly associated with an increased probability of secondary school students’ digital sports participation.

Single-variable dependency explanation

Figure 4 presents the feature dependence plots, illustrating the threshold effects and nonlinear relationships of five variables on secondary school students’ Digital Sports participation. When the number of weekly physical education class days (0 to 5 days) is 0 or 1, the SHAP values are near the zero line on the y-axis, indicating minimal or even negative effects on students’ Digital Sports participation. However, when the number of days reaches 2 or more, the model is more likely to predict participation, and the strength of this positive effect increases with the number of days. The impacts of school ICT resources and household ICT resources (0 to 10 points) on Digital Sports participation are similar: as these resources increase, the slope changes, suggesting that the effect strengthens with higher ICT resource availability. For values below 8 points, SHAP values remain below the zero line, indicating a model prediction of non-participation; only when values exceed 8 points does the model predict participation, highlighting the high ICT resource requirements for Digital Sports behavior. The lowess curve for ICT social perception reveals a largely linear positive relationship: when social perception exceeds the student population average, SHAP values rise above the zero line, and the model predicts participation. The slope changes in academic performance indicate that when scores range from 250 to 500, the model tends to predict participation, with a stronger negative effect as scores increase; beyond 500 points, the model tends to predict non-participation, and the negative effect gradually weakens with higher scores.

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‘Trinbago Beach’ action in Chaguanas | Local Sports

THE Trinbago Beach Volleyball Tour continues with an Under-18 tournament over the next two days at Saith Park, Chaguanas. It will be the second competition for the youngest category in the series, which also includes action in Under-21, Under-23 and the open divisions. After winning the men’s title in the first open tournament two months […]

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THE Trinbago Beach Volleyball Tour continues with an Under-18 tournament over the next two days at Saith Park, Chaguanas.

It will be the second competition for the youngest category in the series, which also includes action in Under-21, Under-23 and the open divisions.

After winning the men’s title in the first open tournament two months ago, Daneil Williams and Daynte Stewart struck gold again in the second stage two weeks ago.

The title favourites defeated Marlon Phillip and Jahreef Miguel 21-18, 21-18 for the trophy, after a 21-14, 21-18 semi-final triumph over Jerome Morrison and Janeiro Atherley. Phillip and Miguel nosed out Kareem Thomas and Tevin Edwards 19-21, 21-16, 15-13 to advance to the title match.

Like the champions, La Teisha Joseph made it two-out-of-two in the women’s event. After combining with Apphia Glasgow to capture the title in the first leg in mid-April, she teamed with Malika Davidson for gold this time.

The multiple NORCECA (North, Central America and the Caribbean) Beach Tour players defeated scored a hard-fought 23-21, 22-20 triumph over Tsyan Selvon and Danielle Noel-Kelly in the final.

Davidson, who flew the red, white and black flag in the Olympic Youth Games in China in 2014, and Joseph had whipped Kaylon Cruickshank and Aaliyah Alexis 21-12, 21-12 in the semis, while Selvon and Noel-Kelly scraped home 27-25, 15-21, 15-13 against Meeka Johnson and L’fe Roberts, a leading Under-18 pair of 2023.

After winning the first leg, Joseph and Glasgow represented the country in the opening leg of the NORCECA Beach Tour in Cuba at the beginning of last month.

But Williams and Stewart did not make the trip, and runners-up Stephen Enile and Joel Theodore also travelled to Dominican Republic for the second leg in the middle of the month.

The NORCECA Under-23 beach Tour got going the following weekend at the same venue, and T&T were represented by the winners of first “Trinbago” leg of this category, Kristianna Richards and Adalia Badroe and Morrison and Miguel.

The Trinbago Tour began with an U-18 tournament in early April, and Jessica Castagne-Hay and Skye La Fon and Darion Sparks and Josie Cedeno were the champs.

The second leg of the NORCECA U-23 series serves off next week Friday in Cayman Islands, while the third event in the NORCECA open circuit begins the following Friday in Honduras.

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USA Junior Men Stumble Against Croatia 19-10 To Open Play At U20 World Championship

Story Links Zagreb, Croatia – June 14 – The USA Men’s Junior National Team lost their opener at the U20 Word Championship, falling 19-10 to Croatia earlier today. Ryder Dodd led the team in scoring with four goals while Charles Mills and Baxter Chelsom combined for eight saves in net. Team […]

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Zagreb, Croatia – June 14 – The USA Men’s Junior National Team lost their opener at the U20 Word Championship, falling 19-10 to Croatia earlier today. Ryder Dodd led the team in scoring with four goals while Charles Mills and Baxter Chelsom combined for eight saves in net. Team USA is back in the pool tomorrow as they continue group play with a meeting against Hungary at 11:30am et/8:30am pt. All matches are scheduled to stream live on the World Aquatics YouTube. Live statistics will be available for every match from MicroPlus Timing Services.

Croatia opened the scoring with a tally at the 5:22 mark but Dodd immediately tied the game on the next possession delivering on a penalty shot score. The two sides would trade goals until Croatia hit for two in a row to build a 4-2 edge with 1:39 to play. William Schneider kept Team USA afloat scoring two of the next three goals to make it a 5-4 game with less than a minute to go in the opening quarter. Croatia had the last word, scoring with :25 on the clock to build a two-goal lead going to the second quarter.

Team USA came out strong to open the second quarter as Peter Castillo hit on a power play followed by a Ryan Ohl goal in close for a 6-6 game roughly two minutes into the period. The lowest scoring quarter of the match stayed quiet on the offensive end until the 2:08 mark when the host country broke through with an extra man goal for a 7-6 lead. They added another power play goal a minute later to go in front 8-6 at halftime.

Croatia took control of this match in the third, outscoring Team USA 6-1. They opened the period with three unanswered goals to increase their lead to five at 11-6. Dodd stopped the bleeding with a tally but Croatia went right back to work scoring three more goals in the quarter to go ahead 14-7 with one period left to play. Dodd hit on a penalty shot to make it 15-8 with 6:44 to play in the game but the United States would get no closer. Croatia added five goals in the fourth to surge to the nine-goal victory.

Team USA went 4/11 on power plays and 2/2 on penalties while Croatia went 6/8 on power plays and 2/2 on penalties.

Scoring – Stats

USA 10 (4, 2, 1, 3) R. Dodd 4, P. Castillo 2, W. Schneider 2, R. Ohl 1. B. Brinkema 1

CRO 19 (6, 2, 6, 5) A. Jerkovic 5, V. Pavlic 4,V. Toncinic 3, M. Susic 3, G. Burburan 2, A. Fajkovic 1, K. Dragosevic 1

Saves – USA – C. Mills 7, B. Chelsom 1 – CRO – M. Cubranic 8

6×5 – USA – 4/11 – CRO – 6/8

Penalties – USA – 2/2 – CRO – 2/2

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Alas Pilipinas rises to no. 46 in FIVB women’s world rankings

Alas Pilipinas on Saturday rose to no. 46 in the FIVB women’s world rankings. Before the AVC Nations Cup, the women’s national volleyball team was at no. 56. According to Asian Volleyball Confederation head and Philippine National Volleyball Federation president Ramon ‘Tats’ Suzara, the past three years have shown that the program is working for […]

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Alas Pilipinas on Saturday rose to no. 46 in the FIVB women’s world rankings.

Before the AVC Nations Cup, the women’s national volleyball team was at no. 56.

According to Asian Volleyball Confederation head and Philippine National Volleyball Federation president Ramon ‘Tats’ Suzara, the past three years have shown that the program is working for the national team.

“The past three years was all upward for our national program in all disciplines—volleyball and beach—thanks to the support of our stakeholders,” Suzara said in a statement.

Last year, Alas claimed bronze in the AVC Challenge Cup, and now the Philippines has a chance for the gold medal in the same but rebranded tournament AVC Nations Cup.

“Last year, our best brought us to the bronze, and this time, it’s going to bring us to higher heights,” Alas Pilipinas team captain Jia De Guzman said. “So we’re just going to bring our best again—and no matter what, this is for the country.”

Alas will take on Vietnam in the finals on Saturday night.

—JKC, GMA Integrated News

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FIS Approves Prize Money Increase Across All World Cup Disciplines for 2025–26 Season

Athletes will receive more prize money for the 2025-26 season. | Image: FIS The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) voted to increase prize money across all FIS World Cup disciplines for the 2025-26 season. During the 56th FIS Council Meeting held in Geneva on June 12–13, council members approved a boost of up to […]

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FIS Approves Prize Money Increase Across All World Cup Disciplines for 2025–26 Season

Athletes will receive more prize money for the 2025-26 season. | Image: FIS

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) voted to increase prize money across all FIS World Cup disciplines for the 2025-26 season. During the 56th FIS Council Meeting held in Geneva on June 12–13, council members approved a boost of up to 20% in athlete prize money—10% guaranteed by FIS, with an additional 10% to be voluntarily contributed by each Local Organizing Committee (LOC).

Currently, FIS mandates that the LOC of each FIS World Cup Alpine race makes available at least CHF 144,000 (USD 177,716) for prize money, divided among the Top 30 finishers. Up until the 2023-24 season, first place at most FIS Alpine races was decorated with CHF 50,000. However, that figure was reduced to CHF 47,000, with the redistributed funds benefitting lower-ranking athletes. A 20% increase for the 2025-26 season would translate to a total of CHF 172,800 (USD 213,260). Notably, FIS rules stipulate equal minimum prize money for men and women across all World Cup events, underscoring a commitment to gender equality in the sport.

“It is clear that we still have a lot to do when it comes to rewarding our athletes as they deserve. This is an important step, but only another one in a long way ahead.”
– Johan Eliasch, FIS President

Prize money varies significantly between FIS disciplines. Alpine skiing remains the most lucrative, with the CHF 144,000 baseline (soon CHF 172,800) and CHF 47,000 awarded to the winner. In contrast, cross-country skiing events have a CHF 55,000 purse per race, with CHF 15,000 going to the winner and prizes extended to the top 20. Snowboarding and freestyle skiing see even less, with CHF 30,000 per event and CHF 13,500 to the winner, split among just the top 10 athletes.

Jessie Diggins claimed the Overall Big Crystal Globe and the Small Long Distance Crystal Globe for the 2023-24 season. | Image: Jessie Diggins Instagram

Exactly how the prize increase will be implemented across individual venues remains uncertain. While FIS sets the minimum, the actual prize money often depends on the financial capacity of host venues—tied to sponsorship deals, broadcasting rights, and public funding. The Hahnenkamm races in Kitzbühel, Austria, currently offer the highest first-place prize of CHF 100,000, well above the FIS minimum. Whether the Kitzbühel Ski Club (K.S.C.) will match the proposed 20% increase remains to be seen; they typically announce their prize structure in October.

Prize money records could soon be broken. Mikaela Shiffrin set the women’s record in the 2022–23 season with CHF 964,200 in World Cup earnings and an additional CHF 114,000 from the World Championships—surpassing CHF 1 million in total. Marco Odermatt set the men’s record that same year, earning CHF 941,200. With the upcoming increase, both athletes—and others in the field—could surpass those milestones in 2025–26.

FIS’s move to raise prize money signals a broader commitment to athlete recognition and financial fairness across winter sports. While implementation will depend on the capacity of individual venues, the initiative marks a significant step toward better compensating elite skiers and snowboarders. As the 2025–26 season approaches, all eyes will be on whether the sport’s biggest names—and its most iconic venues—rise to meet the moment.

The Finish Area of the Hahnenkamm race. | Image: Helly Hansen (one of the sponsors of the race)

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Okanagan volleyball player helps Canada stun Germany in Nations League opener

Landon Currie’s squad defeated Germany 3-2 on Wednesday, fell 3-2 to Argentina Thursday Vernon’s Landon Currie is off to a strong start with Team Canada at the Volleyball Nations League 2025. Canada won the final two sets to stun Team Germany 3-2 in the opener of the worldwide tournament held in China Wednesday, June 11. The […]

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Landon Currie’s squad defeated Germany 3-2 on Wednesday, fell 3-2 to Argentina Thursday

Vernon’s Landon Currie is off to a strong start with Team Canada at the Volleyball Nations League 2025.

Canada won the final two sets to stun Team Germany 3-2 in the opener of the worldwide tournament held in China Wednesday, June 11.

The Canadians lost a tight first set 25-23 before taking the second set 25-19. Germany then secured the third set 25-21 to put themselves in a winning position.

But Canada finished strong, winning the last two sets 25-23 and 15-11 to take the match.

The showdown between the two countries had plenty of excitement and momentum swings.

“In an absolute roller coaster of a battle, Canada kicked off their Volleyball Nations League 2025 campaign with a spectacular thriller win over Germany,” the North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation said on social media Wednesday.

Canada played Argentina on Thursday and the result was a reversal of their first game as they lost 3-2, with Argentina winning the last two sets 25-22 and 15-8.

Currie is a libero for Team Canada, a key position that plays a defensive role and wears a different coloured jersey. Currie is wearing number 97 at the Nations League.

With one win in two games, Canada sits in eighth place out of 18 teams in the first round standings. In this preliminary phase, each team will play 12 matches across three competition weeks. The top eight teams will advance to the quarterfinals.

Canada’s next game is against France on Saturday, June 14, at 1 p.m. PST. France has yet to win a game in the early goings of the tournament.

Canada faces Bulgaria on Sunday at 3 p.m. Bulgaria is also winless so far.

Team Canada finished in sixth place at the 2024 Nations League, their best-ever result at the tournament.

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