Pain ends Wagner’s Skate America bid

Three-time U.S. national figure-skating champion Ashley Wagner stopped in the middle of her long program at Bridgestone Skate America on Sunday because of pain from an ankle infection — a stunning development for U.S. women heading into the Winter Olympics.

Wagner, 26, has been the face of American women since winning her first national title in 2012 in San Jose.

She needed to win Sunday in Lake Placid, New York, to become the only American to advance to the Grand Prix final that features the top six skaters of the autumn season.

Instead, the L.A.-based skater stopped after completing a few jumps without problems.

Wagner told NBC Olympics that she hadn’t skated for a week and a half because of the infection.

“I came here feeling I could mentally will myself through these programs and pretend I wasn’t in pain,” the skater said. “(Now) my focus is on nationals.’’

On a day when Wagner withdrew and reigning U.S. champion Karen Chen of Fremont took eighth, the Americans have found a new star five weeks before nationals, Jan. 3-7 at SAP Center in San Jose.

Illinois’ Bradie Tennell, 19, finished third in her senior Grand Prix debut behind Satoko Miyahara and Kaori Sakamoto of Japan.

American ice dancers Maia and Alex Shibutani skated into the Grand Prix Final with ease, winning their second victory in the series.

Tennis

FRANCE CAPTURES DAVIS CUP >> France won the Davis Cup for the first time in 16 years after beating Belgium 3-2 in Lille, France.

Lucas Pouille’s lopsided 6-3, 6-1, 6-0 win over Steve Darcis in the second reverse singles gave France its 10th Davis Cup title, ending a run of three losses in finals.

France joined Britain in third place on the list for the most Davis Cup titles, behind the United States (32) and Australia (28).

Belgium’s top player, David Goffin, earlier kept alive his country’s hopes of a first title in the team competition by leveling the tie at 2-2. Goffin beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-2 in the first reverse singles match.

Golf

AUSSIE HANGS ON FOR VICTORY >> Australia’s Wade Ormsby won the 2017 Hong Kong Open in dramatic fashion for his first European Tour win.

Ormsby was 12 under and two shots ahead when he bogeyed the final hole to head into the clubhouse at 11-under par, even with Rafa Cabrera Bello, who was playing in the group behind.

A par on the 18th would have forced a playoff, but Bello hit his second shot into the bunker and missed his putt, handing Ormsby the win.

• Cameron Davis came from six shots behind going into the final round to win the Australian Open by one stroke, shooting a 7-under 64.

The 22-year-old Australian finished with an 11-under total of 273 at The Australian Golf Club.

Motor sports

BOTTAS TRIUMPHS IN ABU DHABI >> Valtteri Bottas won the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix from the pole position, beating his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton in Formula One’s season finale.

The Finnish driver comfortably secured the third win of his F1 career.

Hamilton had clinched the world title in Mexico two races ago. Sunday, Sebastian Vettel finished 20 seconds behind him in third place.

Skiing

SHIFFRIN WINS ON HOME SNOW >> American Mikaela Shiffrin picked up her first win of the season in convincing style, winning both runs of the women’s World Cup slalom at Killington, Vermont.

Shiffrin finished with a combined two-run time of 1 minute, 40.91 seconds. She was 1.64 seconds ahead of runner-up Petra Vlhova of Slovakia. Bernadette Schild finished third in 1:43.58.

Grey Cup

ARGOS TAKE CFL CROWN >> Lirim Hajrullahu kicked a 32-yard field goal with 49 seconds left and the Toronto Argonauts stunned the Calgary Stampeders 27-24 in an Ottawa blizzard in the Canadian Football League’s 105th Grey Cup.

Toronto had tied the game with 4:35 to go on Cassius Vaughn’s Grey Cup-record 109-yard fumble return and Ricky Ray’s 2-point conversion pass.

After Hajrullahu’s field goal, Matt Black picked off Bo Levi Mitchell’s pass in the end zone to send the Stampeders to their second loss in two years in the title game.

Toronto won its recordextending 17th championship, and the 38-year-old Ray became the first starting quarterback to win four Grey Cup titles.

The Stampeders led the CFL in the regular season with a 13-4-1 record, while Toronto topped the East Division at 9-9.