Problem

Source: 2019 Belarusian National Olympiad 10.6

Tags: geometry, circumcircle, inequalities



The tangents to the circumcircle of the acute triangle $ABC$, passing through $B$ and $C$, meet at point $F$. The points $M$, $L$, and $N$ are the feet of perpendiculars from the vertex $A$ to the lines $FB$, $FC$, and $BC$, respectively. Prove the inequality $AM+AL\ge 2AN$. (V. Karamzin)