A triangle is given, with altitudes , and , and orthocentre . The segments and intersect at point . The segment is the diameter of the circumcircle of triangle and it intersects at point . Prove that the lines and are parallel. (Go Geometry)
Solution

Since is a right-angled triangle, we have . As is also a right-angled triangle, we get .
It follows that (because the angles and are vertically opposite).
As is a cyclic quadrilateral, inscribed angles which subtend are equal to . We have that is a right angle because it subtends
the diameter (using Thales' theorem). We now infer that the triangles and are similar (because we know that and are right angles, whereas ). From this similarity, we get
We also know that is a cyclic quadrilateral, because .
Therefore, holds, because both these angles subtend the chord . Thus, triangle shares an angle () with triangle . Since we also have , it follows that and are similar, so that
The quadrilateral being cyclic, we know that the inscribed angles which subtend are equal to .
In triangle we have (by similarity with triangle ), so its complementary angle equals . Notice that , because these are both inscribed angles inside the cyclic quadrilateral . It follows that the triangles and are similar, so that
By multiplying (4), (5) and (6) we obtain the equality of ratios and .
Finally, using the converse to the intercept theorem, we conclude that the lines and are parallel.