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Xavier Carter, left, falls to the ground in pain as Rubin Williams, continues in the 200 semifinal Sunday at the U.S. Track and Field Championships.

updated 5:03 p.m. ET June 24, 2007

INDIANAPOLIS - That blur speeding through Indy was Tyson Gay.

Running on a wet track, with the wind blowing in his face, Gay completed one of the most impressive sprint doubles in the sport’s history Sunday.

The quiet, 24-year-old former Arkansas sprinter ran the second-fastest 200 meters ever, a 19.62-second dash that broke Michael Johnson’s meet record on the final day of the U.S. track and field championships.

Add that to his 9.84-second triumph into the wind in the 100 on Friday, and no other sprinter’s marks in the same meet can match him.

Despite a 0.46 mph headwind, Gay’s 200 time was second only to Johnson’s world record 19.32 set at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. Johnson set the U.S. meet record of 19.66 at the Olympic Trials earlier that year, a world record at the time.

Wallace Spearmon, the defending U.S. champion and Gay’s training partner in Fayetteville, Ark., was second in 19.89, with Rodney Martin third at 20.18.

“The time was excellent. The race was excellent, too,” Gay said. “I wasn’t thinking about any time. I was trying to get away from Wallace Spearmon as fast as I could.”

Xavier Carter, who had the second-fastest 200 meters all time before Gay’s big run, was carried off the track on a stretcher after injuring his right leg in the event’s semifinals earlier Sunday. The injury wasn’t as serious as was initially thought.

Carter grabbed his right thigh about 120 meters into the race, staggered a few steps, then tumbled to the ground. He lay there for several minutes before being carried away.

Carter’s agent Mark Block initially thought Carter had injured his iliotibial band, a group of fibers that run on the outside of the thigh from the hip to the knee. However, further examination showed that Carter’s kneecap had popped out of place, then popped back in.

“He felt it coming off the turn,” Block said. “He actually felt it earlier than we saw. He felt it tightening up and all of a sudden he felt a pop.”

Matthew Stockman / Getty Images Xavier Carter is taken off the track after suffering a right leg injury.

Carter ran a 19.63-second 200 in Lausanne, Switzerland, last July 11.

The 200 was to have included four of the six fastest runners in the event’s history, but only two of them were in Sunday’s final — Spearmon and Gay. In addition to Carter’s absence, Walter Dix didn’t show up for Saturday’s preliminary round.

Gay said he was “a little bit” surprised at how one-sided his victories were this week.

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“Some people were injured,” he said. “I’m sorry for Xavier, it’s really been on my mind. I even heard Asafa Powell may have pulled up slightly in his trials. I want everyone to get healthy.”

Powell won the 100 at the Jamaican championships Saturday but appeared laboring at the finish. His brother Nigel said Sunday that the injury was not serious.

“He said he felt like something sticking him in his left groin,” Nigel Powell said, “and he just eased down.”

Both Gay and Spearmon are coached by Lance Brauman, who is nearing the end of a prison sentence for embezzlement, theft and mail fraud. Brauman, a former Arkansas assistant, will have to call them to talk about the race. They can’t call him.

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