On Friday, October 2, 2009, the International Olympic Committee will award Chicago, Illinois the 2016 Chicago Summer Olympic Games. While this is certainly a blow to Rio de Janeiro who hoped to host the first-ever Olympics in South America, it wasn’t quite so difficult for Madrid and Tokyo to swallow as odds-makers didn’t give them much of a chance. This is quite a win for the United States which has struggled to improve its image throughout the international community.

Some of you may wonder why in the world would Chicago host the Olympic Games. While everyone knows it’s called “The Windy City” and that it has a history of corruption and crime, unless you’ve been there, you probably don’t know what Chicago has to offer.

Among impressive items in its resume, Chicago boasts the nation’s third largest population (8,500,000 in the greater Chicagoland area), one of the world’s busiest airports (O’Hare), Lincoln Park (at 1208 acres, it’s 365 acres larger than New York’s Central Park), and 4 of the nation’s 6 tallest buildings. Let’s not forget it has one of the most spectacular skylines in the world.

While it’s already quite a international attraction, look how Chicago plans to transform itself. It’s very impressive.

Ok, enough about that. Let’s talk about why you’re here: Chicago Olympics Shirts

GAFY is offering some very cool olympics tees for men and women. They are in English, such as this one which features Chicago’s tallest buildings:

Here is a Juegos Olimpicos camisa in Spanish

And here is a Jeux Olympiques Tshirt in French

To see all of GAFY’s 2016 Olympics Tees check out GAFY.com!

P.S. Congratulations Chicago!