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Tue 06 Jun 2007McQuaid outlines new anti-doping initiativeCycling: International Cycling Union (UCI) president Pat McQuaid has asked all professional cyclists to sign an anti-doping charter including promises to submit DNA samples to Spanish authorities investigating the Puerto affair.The document, handed out by the UCI at a media conference in Geneva, will also ask cyclists to pledge a year's salary in the event that they test positive for a banned substance in the future.