Olympic is a

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on the of Hong Kong's

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. The livery is dodger blue. The station was originally named

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in proposals outlined by

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in the

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during the 1990s. In 1996, however, when

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won the first ever Olympic gold medal of Hong Kong in

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at the

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and two Hong Kong sportsmen, Cheung Yiu-cheung and Chiu Chung-lun, also won Gold medals in the

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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

and is named after the

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. Olympic is only one of two stations on the Tung Chung line not shared with another line, the other being . __TOC__

History

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

Station layout

Both

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s 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 also does not serve this station, despite serving both the and stations (which are close to Kowloon station).

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

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. *A1: Island Harbourview Bus Terminus *A2:

Island Harbourview Island Harbourview () is one of the largest private housing estates in Tai Kok Tsui, Yau Tsim Mong District, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is one of the property projects in MTR Olympic station Phase I. Developed by MTR Corporation, Sino Land, Ba ...

, Olympian City 1 *B:

HSBC Centre HSBC Centre () is an office building of HSBC in Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It consists of a 14-storey and two twin connected 15-storey office towers resting on a 1-level podium with a public transport interchange and a 2-level basement c ...

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:

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, Olympian City 1, The Long Beach, Hampton Place

References

{{Tung Chung Line navbox MTR stations in Kowloon Tung Chung line Tai Kok Tsui Yau Tsim Mong District Railway stations in Hong Kong opened in 1998