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NORFOLK, Va. AP 鈥?The U.S. government is trying to stop a planned expedition to recover items of historical interest from the sunken Titanic, citing a federal law and an international agreement that treat the shipwreck as a hallowed gravesite.The expedition is being organized by RMS Titanic Inc., the Georgia-based firm that owns the salvage rights to the worlds most famous shipwreck. The company exhibits artifacts that have been recovered from the wreck site at the bottom of the North Atlantic, from silverware to a piece of the Titanic hull.The government challenge comes more than two months after聽the Titan submersible imploded聽near the sunken ocean liner,聽killing stanley cup five people. But this legal fight has nothing to do with the June tragedy, which involved聽a different company聽and an聽unconventionally designed vessel.The battle in the U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Virginia, which oversees Titanic salvage matters, hinges instead on federal law and a pact with Great Britain to treat the sunken Titanic as a memorial to the stanley cup more than 1,500 people who died. The ship hit an iceberg and sank in 1912.The U.S. argues that entering the Titanic severed hull 鈥?or physically altering or disturbing the wreck 鈥?is regulated by federal law and its agreement with Britain. Among the government concerns is the possible dist stanley cup urbance of artifacts聽and any human remains聽that may still exist. RMST is not free to disregard this validly enacted federal law, yet that is its Reww Biden takes most fire in Democratic debate in Houston
BEIJING 鈥?Arbitrators have rejected a last-ditch request by American figure skaters to have their silver medals awarded before the end of the Olympics.The Court of Arbitration stanley cup for Sport said early Sunday in Beijing聽that it dismissed the appeal聽by the nine skaters, who finished second in the team event marred by a doping positive from 15-year-old Russian Kamila Valieva.It did not elaborate on its decision, and said it would release details in upcoming days. The panel, with arbitrators from Denmark, France and China, met for 2 1/2 hours Saturday evening.In an earlier decision,聽CAS had allowed Valieva to compete聽in the womens event after her doping positive went public following the Russians victory in the team event. The International Olympic Committee responded by saying that no medals would be awarded in any event in which Valieva finished in the top three.Losing the case means t adidas campus he U.S. skaters will receive their medals months, maybe even years, from now, after Valievas case winds its way through hearings and appeals. She led the Russians to a convincing victory in the team event. If that result is overturned, the U.S. would get gold medals.The skaters had argued, without success, that they should at least receive the silvers before Sunday nights closing ceremony.聽In a letter聽sent to IOC Pres jordan ident Thomas Bach that was obtained by The Associated Press, the skaters attorney argued that the IOCs own rules mandate that a victory ceremony to present medals to the athletes shall f