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Olympic station

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Olympic 奧運
MTR rapid transit station
Station exterior
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	奧運
Simplified Chinese	奥运
Cantonese Yale	Ouwahn
Literal meaning	Olympics
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Àoyùn Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Ouwahn Jyutping Ou3wan6
General information
Location	Lin Cheung Road × Cherry Street, Tai Kok Tsui Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°19′04″N 114°09′37″E / 22.3178°N 114.1602°E / 22.3178; 114.1602
Owned by	MTR Corporation
Operated by	MTR Corporation
Line(s)	Tung Chung line
Platforms	2side platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	Bus, minibus
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Platform levels	1
Accessible	Yes
Architect	CYS Associates
Other information
Station code	OLY
History
Opened	22 June 1998; 26 years ago (1998-06-22)
Previous names	Tai Kok Tsui
Services
Preceding station MTR Following station Kowloon towards Hong Kong Tung Chung line Nam Cheong towards Tung Chung      Airport Express does not stop here
Route map Legend toNam Cheong 1 2 toKowloon
Location Olympic Location within the MTR system Show map of MTR Olympic Olympic (Hong Kong urban core) Show map of Hong Kong urban core

Olympic is a station on the Tung Chung line of Hong Kong's MTR. The livery is dodger blue.

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 the 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.^[1]

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

On 22 June 1998, Olympic station opened in sync with Tung Chung line.

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 running through the station, between the two platforms, without stopping. The Tuen Ma line also does not serve this station, despite running under the east side of the station near Lin Cheung Road.

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All exits are reached by pedestrian footbridges extending in different directions from the concourse, which is built in a rectangular box between West Kowloon Highway and Lin Cheung Road.

• A1: Island Harbourview Bus Terminus

• A2: Island Harbourview, Olympian City1

• B: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3

• C1: Sham Mong Road
• C2: Cherry Street
• C3: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3

• C4: HSBC Centre Tower 1

• C5: Florient Rise

• D1: Cherry Street

• D2: Lin Cheung Road

• D3: Olympian City 2 and 3

• E: Bank of China Centre, Olympian City 1, The Long Beach, Hampton Place ^[3]

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