Well, the changes they made only made things worse as they proceeded to enter a portion of time that would be the darkest and they would go winless for 7 years, until this summer, all of that changed.
Nonetheless, Ingrid held silent for a while and was probably hoping things would just blow over, when that wasn't the case, she finally spoke out to explain what happened with her national anthem performance.
I agree that even if you don't stand you SHOULD take your cap off out of respect, but the fact he didn't intentionally NOT take it off and was harrassed I feel is totally out of line.