That meant a silver medal for the 41-year-old American Dara Torres, the oldest swimmer at these Games and a competitor who has been around long enough to recognise a "fast" pool when she sees one.
She changes phone accessories to match her clothes – eg, a dress with a silver zip means a black-and-silver phone case, not black and gold, because: "I am a bit OCD about not mixing silver and gold".
Technology is by no means a silver bullet for eradicating hunger or tackling world poverty.
Technology is by no means a silver bullet, but it can make great headway in issues that rely on improving speed, overcoming distance, generating efficiency, creating and analyzing information and delivering transparency.
"Mobile needs to be a cornerstone of Microsoft's business for future success," said Wood. "This is by no means a silver-bullet solution to Nokia and Microsoft's current difficulties.
A sidearm of this rod was linked to a second force transducer (LETICA TRI-110; Scientific Instruments) by means of a silver spring of a known Young's modulus, thus allowing for the measurement of displacement.
These A20CNS-KO or A20NEUR-KO mice, together with control littermate mice, were subjected to pMCAO for 24 h after which the infarct size was estimated by means of a silver staining technique.
The silver medal means a half-hour of television or computer a night, and the bronze means one hour.
But that doesn't mean the silver screen is sitting still.
For some people, that does mean sterling silver.
