The Russian Athletics Federation (RUSAF) has announced it is appealing the IAAF’s decision to continue its suspension and will file its appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Russia has been suspended since November 2015 when the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) found evidence through an independent commission of state sponsored doping and cover-ups.

RUSAF’s decision to appeal their suspension comes after last week’s controversial news that WADA has reinstated the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA).

After this decision, Russia was warned by both the IAAF and International Paralympic Committee that they should not expect their bans from those organisations to be automatically lifted.

The IAAF said last week that RUSADA’s reinstatement fulfilled one of three pre-conditions for the reinstatement of Russia’s athletics federation.

For the federation to be reinstated, Russia must acknowledge that officials from the Sports Ministry were involved in doping cover-up schemes.

Russian authorities must also provide access to data from testing samples at the Moscow lab, which was also suspended in the wake of the 2015 scandal.

Competitors who have met certain criteria have been allowed to take part at events, such as the 2017 World Championships in London, but only as “authorised neutral athletes”.