Let be a quadrilateral having no two parallel sides, inscribed into the circle . Let be circles inscribed into triangles , respectively. Let us draw common external tangents to pairs of circles and , and , and , and , respectively, so that lines do not contain the sides of . The quadrilateral whose consecutive sides lie on (in this order) is inscribed into the circle . Prove that the three lines connecting centers of and , and , and , are concurrent.
Solution
Without loss of generality, let rays and intersect at point , and rays and intersect at point . Denote the center of circle as , and define points similarly. Let the quadrilateral formed by the four tangent lines be (line is the common external tangent to and , and similarly for the other three sides).

For quadrilateral , denote , . By the cyclic properties of quadrilaterals and , we have angle relations: , , . Consequently, and . In particular, , so point lies on ray and . This equality implies that line is parallel to the angle bisector of .
Since line is symmetric to line with respect to the line of centers , we obtain that , and line passes through point . Defining points similarly, we find these points lie on lines which are parallel to the sides of quadrilateral .
As established, line is parallel to the bisector of . Similarly, line is parallel to this bisector, while lines
and are parallel to the bisector of . Since , the bisector of is perpendicular to line . Thus, adjacent sides of quadrilateral are perpendicular, making it a rectangle. Therefore, it is cyclic - denote its circumcircle by , with center at the intersection of its diagonals.
It remains to prove that the centers of circles , and are collinear. We'll show these three circles share a radical axis containing points ().
Let be the circumcircle of quadrilateral . Then point is the radical center of circles , and , lying on two of their radical axes. Hence, the radical axis of and passes through , and similarly through . Thus these four points are collinear.
Let line intersect side at and side at . Since , we have , making quadrilateral cyclic. As and , by Thales' theorem:
From these ratios and the cyclicity of , we obtain , showing equal power of with respect to and . Analogous reasoning applies to , proving claim () as required.