Olympic station

Location
	Olympic Location within the MTR system Olympic Olympic (Hong Kong urban core)

Route map
	Legend

Olympic

奧運
Olympic; 奧運
	Station exterior
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	奧運
Simplified Chinese	奥运
Cantonese Yale	Ouwahn
Literal meaning	Olympics
Hanyu Pinyin
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
System	MTR rapid transit station
Owned by	MTR Corporation
Operated by	MTR Corporation
Line	Tung Chung line
Platforms	2 side 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; 27 years ago
Previous names	Tai Kok Tsui
Services
	Airport Express does not stop here
Route map
Route map
	Legend
Location
Location
	Olympic Location within the MTR system Olympic Olympic (Hong Kong urban core)

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.

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
U2	Concourse	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	← 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

^[2]

Entrances and exits

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.