Shades of Kurt Vonnegut’s Handicaps.
Exactly— track sports competitors who are “advantaged” by training, background and.... ability, are required to have ankle weights attached to them— in order to make the race more “fair” for lesser athletes.
Vonnegut, a socialist, swerved into a socialist/utopian inequity and classic tactic of the left===
Equality of OUTCOME determined by the State! Equal stupidity, and equal MISERY.