These 9 Latinas Competing at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics Are Forging New Paths

Colombian archer Valentina Acosta won the world archery championship in Spain when she was just 19. The Instagram sensation (she has 1.4 million followers!) decided to get into archery after reading The Hunger Games when she was 15. From the start, she knew she wanted to be in a big competition like this one. "I always carried a water bottle with a sticker of the Olympic arches pointing in the direction of the arrow," she told El Pais Colombia before knowing she would be representing her country in the 2021 Games.

Follow her on Instagram at @robeilys_ruby.