Cuban Eric Lopez cancelled American Cup

The two times winner of the American cup (2000, 2002), the Cuban Erik Lopez cancelled his participation at this event coming weekend in the Madison Square Garden of New York, IG publishes.
The reason: His coach Ernesto Izaguirre did not get a visa to enter the United States. Lopez commented: 'We are a team, we travel together to all competitions!'

But the vice-world champion on parallel bars of Ghent 2001 gave his announcement for coming to the first wold cup this year in Germany, the '28th Turnier der Meister' in Cottbus (March 5 - 7).