Windmill Math problem (IMO 2011)


This problem was part of the International Mathematical Olympiad 2011.

Problem 2. Let S be a finite set of at least two points in the plane. Assume that no three points of S are collinear. A windmill is a process that starts with a line going through a single point PS. The line rotates clockwise about the pivot P until the first time that the line meets some other point belonging to S. This point, Q, takes over as the new pivot, and the line now rotates clockwise about Q, until it next meets a point of S. This process continues indefinitely.

Show that we can choose a point P in S and a line going through P such that the resulting windmill uses each point of S as a pivot infinitely many times.

Untouched point    Point used as a pivot at least once