Un­grate­ful.

That was the word used by Keshorn Wal­cott's moth­er yes­ter­day, as she lashed out at so­cial me­dia crit­ics of her son's Olympic bronze medal ef­fort at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sat­ur­day night.

"Peo­ple are un­grate­ful. It's a medal, it's the on­ly one. It would have been so much hap­pi­er if he had got­ten gold," Bev­er­ly Wal­cott said dur­ing an in­ter­view at her L'anse Noire, To­co home.

Wal­cott be­came T&T's last hope of se­cur­ing a medal at the Games af­ter the women's and men's 4x100 me­tres team failed to medal and the 4x400 me­tres re­lay team failed to ad­vance to the fi­nal on Fri­day night.

Fam­i­ly mem­bers gath­ered yes­ter­day to con­tin­ue the cel­e­bra­tions, which be­gan af­ter Keshorn achieved Olympic glo­ry for T&T with a throw of 85.38 me­tres. Ger­many's Thomas Rohler won gold with a throw of 90.30 me­tres while Kenya's Julius Yego took sil­ver (88.24 me­tres)

"This medal may look dark­er than his gold medal but it is a medal which he won and was the on­ly one for T&T. I am proud of my son as this is his sec­ond medal that he has won at the age of 23," his proud moth­er said.

"When you go for some­thing, take what you get and thank God. Keshie has done well and made us proud. I am very hap­py on his per­for­mance."

Wal­cott's aunt, An­na Stew­art, said, "Peo­ple in T&T al­ways have high ex­pec­ta­tions and when it does not hap­pen, they are dis­ap­point­ed. Peo­ple should be more pa­tri­ot­ic."

She said Keshorn called the fam­i­ly af­ter his throw and said he did his best and said, "'For me, this time was bronze. What is for me, is for me.'

"We are all ex­cit­ed for the bronze medal but in Trinidad some peo­ple on­ly pass­ing on the boy," Stew­art said

Stew­art said some peo­ple are putting neg­a­tive con­no­ta­tion on his achieve­ment, say­ing on­ly bronze, in­stead of show­ing ap­pre­ci­a­tion.

Keshorn's cousin, Faith Tin­to, al­so a promis­ing ath­lete who is work­ing on gain­ing a spot on team T&T at the next Olympics in the long jump, said Keshorn had in­spired and mo­ti­vat­ed her and many of her class­mates. She said Keshorn's de­ter­mi­na­tion for his sport was tremen­dous and had al­so in­spired many of the youths in To­co and en­vi­rons.

Af­ter Keshorn stunned the world in the Lon­don 2012 games, get­ting a gold medal for his 84.5 me­tres throw, Tin­to re­called she was trav­el­ling in a maxi taxi and heard some­one say­ing that Keshorn's throw was a fluke.

"Even the so­cial me­dia will bash him, say­ing went to the Olympics and bring back bronze, but it's a medal. I am proud of him. Every­thing is God's will," Tin­to said.

Keshorn's grand­moth­er, Joyce­lyn Wal­cott, said she spoke to her grand­son the night be­fore the com­pe­ti­tion and wished him all the best.

"We laugh and I said to him 'We wait­ing on gold,' but my wish did not come true, but he still won a medal, which is con­sid­ered gold for me." [See sto­ry back page]