Adriano Malori won the stage 5 individual time trial at the Tour de San Luís on Friday in San Luís, Argentina. Malori (Movistar) took advantage of equipment issues for pre-stage favorite Taylor Phinney (BMC Racing) to set the fastest time on the mostly flat 19.2-kilometer circuit.
Malori set the winning mark in 22:11. Phinney was second, at 2.7 seconds, and Jorge Giacinti (San Luís Somos Todos) was third, at 29 seconds.
American Phil Gaimon (Garmin-Sharp) ceded the leader’s jersey he’d worn since his stage 1 victory to Nairo Quintana (Movistar). Quintana, the best young rider at the 2013 Tour de France, leads Gaimon by 26 seconds ahead of Saturday’s decisive summit finish at Mirador del Sol. Sergio Godoy (San Luís Somos Todos) is third, at 1:01. American Peter Stetina (BMC Racing) is sixth overall, at 2:58.
According to Phinney’s mechanic, Ian Sherbourne, the American was unable to shift into his 11-tooth cog during the stage.
“It wouldn’t go into the 11 is what he said. We checked it right now and it dropped into the 11 fine,” Sherbourne told VeloNews. “It’s also one of those differences between when you adjust something in the stand, you’re obviously not putting 500 watts through it. That’s why we usually have them do the [reconnaissance] with the full race setup and check it out and, ideally, inform us if there’s any situation.”
Phinney blamed his result on his own decision to forgo a 55-tooth or larger front chainring.
“I personally am quite disappointed,” he told VeloNews. “I definitely wanted to win today. I made a tactical error on my part by not asking the mechanics to put a 55- or 56-tooth chainring on my front set. You know, I rode it this morning and thought it wouldn’t be necessary, but I got up to 75, 78K an hour on the downhill section and had to stop pedaling a couple times.”
Regardless of the reason for his gearing issue, Phinney said he did not want to make excuses and credited Malori for his win in the first big TT showdown among the sport’s top teams in 2014.
“I knew Malori would be strong, but I’m quite disappointed,” said Phinney. “My power was there in the time trial, my pacing strategy was good, just not having those extra gears on the way down, that cost you some extra seconds. Whether that cost me the win, we’ll never know, but it’s pretty personally disappointed.”
In the race for the GC, Quintana led Gaimon by 15 seconds at the intermediate time check and drove home to take the orange leader’s jersey with two days remaining.
The Tour de San Luís continues Saturday with the 184km sixth stage, from Las Chacras to Merlo. The penultimate stage finishes on the Cat. 1 Mirador del Sol, which climbs for 7km above the summit of a Cat. 3 ramp near the Merlo. The races wraps up Sunday with a seventh stage likely to end in a bunch sprint in San Luís.
Neal Rogers, on assignment in Argentina, contributed to this report.
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