Let be an acute triangle with and its orthocenter. Consider a point on the side . The circumcircles of triangles and meet again and in and , respectively. Lines and meet in point . Prove that is parallel to if and only if the line contains the circumcenter of .
Solution
We only show the proof in the case when , , the other cases being similar (the diagram on the left shows such a case).
From follows , hence are concyclic.
Therefore is equivalent to being the vertices of an isosceles trapezoid, which translates into . But and , hence , which means that and are isogonals, i.e. passes through the circumcenter of .

Another solution:
As above, . This means that the reflections, and , of and , respectively, across are on the circumcircle of . Moreover, , hence is cyclic. Then , which means that .
Now , which is equivalent to , i.e. , and the conclusion follows readily.
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