When it comes to the majority of the major IAAF track and field events over the next five years, there seems only one place to go: Europe.
As the IAAF celebrated the season with their gala this weekend, their Council meeting in Monaco which preceded it announced a series of new venues for their forthcoming competitions.
Their decisions saw Cardiff being awarded the 2016 World Half Marathon Championships, Cheboksary being named as the host city of the 2016 and 2018 World Race Walking Cup and Birmingham given the 2018 World Indoor Championships.
Mikhail Butov, the general secretary of the Russian Athletics Federation, led their team in Monaco as they presented their plans to hold the World Race Walking Cup again in Cheboksary, a port on the Volga River where the main sport is race walking.
Cheboksary hosted this cup in 2008 and just months after Moscow held the IAAF World Athletics Championships, Butov talked of Russia’s ability to successfully stage these big events.
The bid team told the IAAF Council how in 2008, thousands of people lined the streets to watch the Cup and their hopes of hosting the events in 2016 and 2018 were approved unanimously.
In Great Britain, when the final spectator left the Olympic Stadium in London in 2012, it was hardly the end for major track and field; infact, it was just the beginning.
Within the year the country had staged the biggest team event in the sport - the European Athletics Team Championships in Gateshead - with next summer’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the 2017 World Championships, back in London, already secured.
But this week, the people at British Athletics are celebrating again after increasing their status once more by landing two more major events.
Cardiff showed the strength of road running in Wales in how, from their first Half Marathon in 2003 having a field of just under 1500, the 10th Anniversary race in 2012 had 13,700 runners.
Birmingham lasted staged the World Indoor Championships in 2003 and was host of the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
British Athletics chief executive Niels de Vos said: “This is a fantastic day for British Athletics and represents the best possible outcome.
'We are all very proud of what ourselves and the cities of Cardiff and Birmingham have achieved.”
Portland in Oregon won the 2016 World Indoor Championships.
But Europe may have even more events heading its way. Kazan in Russia are candidates for the 2016 IAAF World Junior Championships with the expected decision on the venue for that event has been postponed until IAAF’s Council meeting in the spring.