Wiatr Captures Criterium // McCook Is National Champ

He speaks English, lives in Chicago and loves the States, butChris Wiatr, a native of Poland, is not cycling's national championeven though he won the U.S. Pro Criterium Championship on Sunday.

That honor goes to David McCook, who, despite finishing third,took home a stars-and-stripes jersey as the pro criterium's nationalchampion in the Chicago Sun-Times Grand Prix in Downers Grove.

"It takes something away for me," said McCook, the 1992national amateur champion. "I would have liked to have won. It doesdetract from it a little bit."

Wiatr, meanwhile, is lucky to be racing at all after breaking hiship two months ago in another race.

"He healed …