2020 IOC doping scandal (A House Divided)

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The 2020 IOC doping scandal was a scandal involving allegations of bribery used to coverup American doping occurances, and to ban Russian athletes from taking part in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Scandal
The scandal broke in May 2020, after Russian hacker group Fancy Bears released a series of private emails between IOC President Thomas Bach and multiple Team USA coaches, including head swimming coaches David Marsh and Bob Bowman, and women's gymnastic coach Valeri Liukin. In the emails, Bach promised to turn a blind eye to the doping habits of multiple American athletes, and to ban many Russian athletes under false pretenses.

The emails also revealed a similar conspiracy in 2016.

Athletes involved in the planned coverup

 * Lilly King - Women's Swimming
 * Serenea Williams - Women's Tennis
 * Venus Williams - Women's Tennis

Athetes targeted by the planned disbarments

 * Yulia Efimova - Women's Swimming
 * Maria Sharapova - Women's Tennis
 * Karen Kachanova - Men's Tennis

Reaction and fallout
As a result of the scandal, Bach was arrested and convicted to 20 years on bribary charges. King and the Williams sisters were permanently banned from ever taking part in a national competition again.

Most of the world's population expressed shock and disgust at the scandal. US President Donald Trump issued a formal apology on behalf of the United States and invited Russian President Putin to dinner in Washington DC (Putin would decline). Russo-American relations would never fully recover from the scandal.

Moscow won the 2029 bid to host the 2036 Summer Olympics, with many believing this was reparations for the scandal.