Per his Instagram story, he said, “Last year I was 0.02 seconds short of reaching the world championship final in the 5000m. Half a year has passed, and two of the guys finishing in front of me in my heat have either been suspended for whereabouts failures or tested positive for doping. Happy that cheaters get caught, but it’s a bittersweet feeling, to say the least.”
Kudos to him for calling out the cheaters in our sport, and it really stings for him seeing as he got cheated out of a medal at the European Champs in Munich in 2022 (Katir was second, Almgren finished fourth).