Bringing together one million sweaty competitors and 25 cities around the globe, last weekend saw the first-ever global 10k run. The event sparked a sense of healthy goodwill around the world, bringing the human race together as one for an event cleverly entitled, erm, the Human Race.

However, the name of the event was almost its undoing. The UK leg of the race was only saved at the 11th hour after very nearly falling foul of intellectual property law.