Easy to believe. IMO, they are the most incompetent of the big federations. From the bad design of their website, to their inability to promote coaching strategies that lead to the development of winning skaters (I blame them for the bad edges on jumps of their skaters as a group--what are they doing, allowing kids to pass their tests on singles and doubles with jumps that take off the wrong edge?) , to their rose colored glasses with regard to some competitors and their discriminatory behavior to others.
Incompetent. Just incompetent. And like many other cases of incompetency, based in equal parts of a sense of entitlement and inherent laziness.