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Olympic (Chinese: 奧運; Cantonese Yale: Ouwahn) is a station on the Tung Chung line of Hong Kong's MTR. The station's livery is dodger blue.

Literal meaningOlympics
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Olympic

奧運
MTR
Station exterior
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese奧運
Simplified Chinese奥运
Cantonese YaleOuwahn
Literal meaningOlympics
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinÀoyùn
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationOuwahn
JyutpingOu3wan6
General information
LocationLin Cheung Road × Cherry Street, Tai Kok Tsui
Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong
Coordinates22°19′04″N 114°09′37″E
SystemMTR rapid transit station
OwnerMTR Corporation
OperatorMTR Corporation
LineTung Chung line
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks4
Connections
Construction
Structure type
At-grade
Platform levels
1
AccessibleYes
ArchitectCYS Associates
Other information
Station codeOLY
History
Opened22 June 1998; 28 years ago (1998-06-22)
Former namesTai Kok Tsui
Services
Preceding station MTR MTR Following station
Kowloon
towards Hong Kong
Tung Chung line Nam Cheong
towards Tung Chung
     Airport Express does not stop here
Route map
1
2
Location
Olympic is located in MTR
Olympic
Olympic
Location within MTR
Olympic is located in Hong Kong urban core
Olympic
Olympic
Location within Hong Kong urban core
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The station was originally named Tai Kok Tsui in proposals outlined by the government in the Airport Core Programme during the 1990s. In 1996, however, when Lee Lai-shan won the first ever Olympic gold medal of Hong Kong in windsurfing at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics and two Hong Kong sportsmen, Cheung Yiu-cheung and Chiu Chung-lun, also won Gold medals in the Paralympic Games of the same year, the (then-under construction) station was renamed Olympic on 16 December 1996, paying tribute to those achievements of Hong Kong athletes. The station is decorated with pictures of the 1996 Summer Olympics and is named after the Olympic Games.

Olympic is only one of two stations on the Tung Chung line not shared with another line, the other being Tung Chung itself.[1]


History

The construction contract for the station was awarded to the Laing-Hip Hing joint venture in November 1994.

The station was opened on 22 June 1998 along with the rest of the Tung Chung line.

Station layout

Both side platforms are parallel to each other and are at ground level. They do not share the same island platform due to the Airport Express trains that run through the station without stopping.

U2 Concourse Exits, customer service, MTRshops, Hang Seng Bank
Vending machines, automatic teller machines
G Ground level Exit A1, Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
Street level Lin Cheung Road, West Kowloon Highway
Platform 1      Tung Chung line towards Tung Chung (Nam Cheong) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Airport Express      Airport Express does not stop here →
←      Airport Express does not stop here
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Platform 2 ←      Tung Chung line towards Hong Kong (Kowloon)
Street level Lin Cheung Road, Sham Mong Road
Exits Exit B, C1, C2, Olympic Station Bus Terminus

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Entrances and exits

Concourse (paid area)
Platform 2
Platform 1
Platform 2
Exit C
Platform 2
Platform 1
Platforms in Sport Cycling
MTR Olympic Station Platform Arts in the Sport Rowing
Platform 1
Platform 2
Concourse (paid area)
Platform 1

The station's exits are all connected via pedestrian footbridges, with none directly built into the station. Some of these footbridges run over the West Kowloon Highway and Lin Cheung Road.

  • A1: Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
  • C1: Sham Mong Road Wheelchair user access
  • C2: Cherry Street
  • C3: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3 Wheelchair user access
  • C4: HSBC Centre Tower 1 Wheelchair user access
  • D1: Cherry Street
  • D2: Lin Cheung Road
  • D3: Olympian City 2 and 3 Wheelchair user access

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