  We give a new characterisation of inner product spaces amongst normed vector
spaces in terms of the maximal cirumradius of spheres. It turns out that a
normed vector space $(X,\norm{\cdot})$ with $\dim X\geq 2$ is an inner product
space if and only if all spheres are not degenerate, i.e. the maximal
circumradius of points on the sphere equals the radius of the sphere.
