The One-Shoe Games
Read the storyNew uniform regulations have been imposed on every women's sport: every female athlete is required to have one bare foot while the other remains shod; the stands must be empty and the playing fields small. This was decreed by a billionaire artist who took over women's sports to realize her own twisted vision—driven by the fact that she herself wears only one shoe to show off her bare foot and the foot-care products she markets. Her women's foot-care corporations took control of the sport's administration, offering female athletes high salaries—which they accepted—but now they must compete in every sport wearing only one shoe. In a POV sledding scene, we see the woman's feet; an interesting technique is used where, once she gains sufficient speed, the shoe and sock slide off her foot.