Career
McEwen started road cycling at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra under the A.I.S. road cycling coach Heiko Salzwedel. The first signs of his sprinting prowess on the international stage were at the "Peace Race", winning three stages for the Australian National team.
He competed in the road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics (23rd) and the 2000 Summer Olympics (19th). He was also included on the Australian team for the 1994 UCI Road Cycling World Championship in Italy, and the 2002 UCI Road Cycling World Championship in Belgium where he won a silver medal. McEwen was again selected for Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics (11th) as part of the road race team of Michael Rogers, Stuart O'Grady, Baden Cooke and Matthew White.
McEwen was named 2002 Australian Cyclist of the Year, 2002 Male Road Cyclist of the Year and 1999 Australia Male Road Cyclist of the Year. In December 2010, after the failure of the Australian-registered Pegasus team to obtain a UCI Professional Continental license, McEwen suggested that 2011 might be his final professional season, which he would ride for Team RadioShack after securing a contract with Johan Bruyneel's squad at the last minute. In September 2011 he joined the new Australian team GreenEDGE, which obtained a ProTeam licence for the 2012 season.
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