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Garmin-Sharp cyclist Tyler Farrar, right, wins Stage 5 of the USA Pro Challenge on Friday. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post)
COLORADO SPRINGS — With just 1½ laps left in three laps around downtown Colorado Springs, the peloton finally caught the breakaway group Friday afternoon and from there Tyler Farrar broke out in the sprint to the finish line to win Stage 5 of the USA Pro Challenge.

The Team Garmin-Sharp rider, who also won Stage 1 on Monday, finished Friday's stage in 3 hours, 58 minutes, 27 seconds. During the stage, Farrar also reclaimed the green jersey as the top sprinter.

Boulder's Taylor Phinney of BMC Racing who crashed in Stage 1 and injured is right knee, finished


George Hincapie, left, (riding for BMC Racing) and David Zabriskie (riding for Garmin-Sharp) prepare for the start of Stage 5 at the USA Pro Challenge on Friday in Breckenridge. (Doug Pensinger, Getty Images)
second in the Stage 5. His teammate, Tejay van Garderen, kept the yellow jersey. Van Garderen kept the yellow jersey but remains tied in time with Garmin Sharp's Christian Vande Velde at 21:32:45.
Garmin-Sharp's Tom Danielson remains atop the King of the Mountains standings as the top climber with 50 points, three ahead of Jorge Castiblanco of Team EPM-UNE.

With all the news about Lance Armstrong's latest issue on allegations from his past in the air, Stage 5 left Breckenridge on Friday morning for the 117...