2008 World Ice Hockey Championship (Canada)

Thanks for the clarification. I thought "Belarusian" was "Byelorussian" in English. Now I know, and I'll throw out all the dictionaries that lie.
Proper nouns are a different story. So you haven't convinced me (c) Andrey.

And I said that the example wasn't entirely correct. It was just an example of how language changes. You can also argue about your letter "a." The country is called Belarus, so does that mean the nationality can no longer be Belarusian? It sounds almost identical. And your joke about the name of the nationality in English is superficial. I didn't say that it's correct to write "Belarusian" in English; I said: "...in Albion...".
Our team, as always, lost to the Czechs (I'm talking about the Belarusian national team)...Even though there was practically no chance of qualifying, it's still a little disappointing that they conceded the first goal to the Czechs, which they scored with their foot.