Walking in circles

Consider the unit circle S^1 with distance function d measured along the circle. We show that for every selection of 2n points x"1,...,x"n,y"1,...,y"[email protected]?S^1 there exists [email protected]?{1,...,n} such that @?"k"="1^nd(x"i,x"k)@[email protected]?"k"="1^nd(x"i,y"k). We also discuss a game theoretic interpretation of this result.