Tyson Gay electrified the Reebok Grand Prix athletics meeting with a time of 9.76 seconds in the 100m on Saturday, but a favorable wind of 2.2m per second meant the US sprinter couldn't claim a world record.
Gay's sizzling time on the Icahn Stadium track was one-hundredth of a second faster than the world record of 9.77 seconds shared by Jamaica's Asafa Powell and US runner Justin Gatlin -- whose slice of the mark stands to be wiped out by a doping charge.
But the legal wind limit for a record is 2m per second.
It was still the second-fastest 100m ever run under any conditions, topped only by the 9.69 gust-aided performance by Obadele Thompson of Barbados at El Paso, Texas, in 1996.
Gay insisted he didn't mind missing out on a place in the record book -- this time.
"I'm not frustrated at all," he said. "I had a bad feeling [about the wind]. It can't always be perfect."
Gay confirmed the stellar form he showed on May 20, when he clocked a wind-aided 9.79 seconds to win the 100m at a meeting in Los Angeles. On that occasion the wind was 2.5m per second.
Gay, who ended last year ranked No. 1 in the world in the 200m and second in the 100m, owns a best non-wind-aided 100m time of 9.84 seconds.
As he did in Los Angeles, Gay finished ahead of Derrick Atkins of the Bahamas (9.83). Shawn Crawford of the US (9.96) was third.
China's 110m hurdles world record-holder Liu Xiang recovered from a so-so start to win in a season-best 12.92 seconds.
He was four-hundredths of a second off the world record he set last year but pleased with taking the lead by the sixth of 10 barriers and winning by half a stride.
"The first half of my race wasn't very good, but the second half I caught up and I'm very excited," Liu said after outdueling top US rivals Terrence Trammell (12.95) and Ryan Wilson (13.02) in a race run in a wind of 1.5m per second.
US fans were treated to an US women's pole vault record of 4.88m by Jenn Stuczynski, as former record holder Stacy Dragila withdrew early with an Achilles tendon injury.
Jamaica's Veronica Campbell won the women's 100m in 10.93 seconds.
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