Traditional Chinese 奧運 Hanyu Pinyin Jyutping ou3 wan6 Opened 22 June 1998 Platforms in use 2 (side platforms) | Simplified Chinese 奧运 Yale Romanization ou3 wan6 Address Tai Kok Tsui, Hong Kong Level 1 | |
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Location Lin Cheung Road × Cherry Street, Tai Kok Tsui
Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong Similar Heng Fa Chuen, To Kwa Wan, Taikoo Shing, Diamond Hill, Castle Peak - Hong Kong | ||
Olympic (Chinese: 奧運) is a station on the Tung Chung Line of Hong Kong's MTR. The livery is dodger blue.
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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 the pictures of the 1996 Summer Olympics and is named after the Olympic Movement.
Olympic is only one of two stations on the Tung Chung Line not shared with another line, the other being Tung Chung.
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 running through the station, between the two platforms, without stopping.
Entrances and exits
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.