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Dumb Question Alert: So how did Europe become the place to be if you want to run and make money?

In other words, how did Europe come to cultivate the sport where as other countries did not? Is it because of the culture? Hell, it gets cold over there! If anything, I don’t see why hot places like South America, the middle east, or the west coast of North America are the places to promote lucrative track meets.

It was more popular over there to begin with, on top of the points KitKat mentioned.

It isn’t cold in Europe over the summer and many of the places you mentioned can’t host many (if any) track meets late in the summer precisely because of the heat. Hence the reason why no Middle Eastern country has been able to make a serious bid at hosting a summer Olympic Games and likely never will in the current structure.