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Olympic Station (traditional Chinese: 奧運站) 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 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 1996 Summer Olympics and is named after the Olympic Movement.
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Station layout
| U2 Concourse |
Concourse | Exits, customer service, MTRshops, Hang Seng Bank |
| Vending machines, automatic teller machines | ||
| G Platforms (Ground) |
Exit | Exit A1, Island Harbourview Bus Terminus |
| - | West Kowloon Highway | |
| Platform 1 | Tung Chung Line towards Tung Chung and Disneyland Resort Line | |
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| Platform 2 | Tung Chung Line towards Hong Kong | |
| - | Lin Cheung Road, Sham Mong Road | |
| Exits | Exit B, C1, C2, Olympic Station Bus Terminus | |
Although both platforms are parallel to each other on ground level, they do not share the same island platform due to the Airport Express Trains running through the middle of the station.
Entrances/Exits
All exits are reached by pedestrian footbridges reaching out to all directions from the concourse, built in a rectangular box in the middle of the West Kowloon Highway.
- A1: Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
- A2: Island Harbourview
- 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: Olympian City 2
- D2: Lin Cheung Road
- D3: Cherry Street
- E: Bank of China Centre
Transport connections
Bus routes
To Shek Lei Estate:
- 31B
To Shek Wai Kok:
- 32
To Kwai Shing (Central):
- 37
To Tai Hing Estate:
- 66X
To Pok Hong Estate:
- 87A
To Sun Tin Wai Estate:
- 87B
Neighbouring stations
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towards Hong Kong
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Tung Chung Line |
towards Tung Chung
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References
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