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Olympic Station (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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[edit] 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 |
| - | Lin Cheung Road, 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.
It is interesting to note that, with the exception of transfer to buses, Olympic station is the only station along the Tung Chung Line that does not have a transfer point to other routes in the MTR system (Tung Chung being to transfer to the Ngong Ping 360 cable cars)
[edit] 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 and Park Avenue

- D2: Lin Cheung Road
- D3: Cherry Street
- E: Bank of China Centre

[edit] Transport connections
[edit] Bus routes
- 2E- Kowloon City Ferry ↔ Pak Tin
- 10- Choi Wan ↺ Tai Kok Tsui
- 12- Hoi Lai Estate ↺ East Tsim Sha Tsui Station
- 13D- Po Tat ↔ Island Harbourview
- 16- Lam Tin (Kwong Tin Estate) ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
- 18- Nam Cheong Station ↺ Oi Man
- 31B- Shek Lei ↔ Olympic Station
- 32- Shek Wai Kok ↔ Olympic Station
- 33A- Mong Kok (Park Avenue) ↔ Tsuen Wan (Nina Tower)
- 37- Kwai Shing (Central) ↔ Olympic Station
- 43C- Cheung Hong ↔ Island Harbourview
- 52X- Tuen Mun Town Centre ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
- 66X- Tai Hing ↔ Olympic Station
- 72X- Tai Po Central ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
- 87A- Pok Hong ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
- 87B- Sun Tin Wai ↔ Island Harbourview
- 265B- Tin Heng Estate ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
- 887- Sha Tin Racecourse → Mong Kok (Park Avenue) (Racing Days Only)
- 701- Hoi Lai Estate /Nam Cheong Station ↺ Mong Kok
- 701S- Hoi Lai Estate /Nam Cheong Station ↺ Mong Kok
- 971- Hoi Lai Estate ↔ Shek Pai Wan
- NWFB towards Hong Kong Island
- 904- Lai Chi Kok ↔ Kennedy Town (Belcher Bay)
- 905- Lai Chi Kok ↔ Wan Chai Ferry
- 914- Hoi Lai Estate ↔ Causeway Bay (Tin Hau)
- 914X- Hoi Lai Estate → Causeway Bay (Tin Hau)
- Citybus towards Airport/AsiaWorld-Expo
- A21- Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) ↔ Hung Hom Station
- E21- AsiaWorld-Expo ↔ Island Harbourview
- N23- Tung Chung ↔ Sze Wan Shan (Via: Airport)
[edit] Neighbouring stations
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towards Tung Chung
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Tung Chung Line |
towards Hong Kong
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