U.S. water polo captain Maggie Steffens told the Associated Press that her sister-in-law, Lulu Conner, died after 'a medical emergency.'
U.S. water polo captain Maggie Steffens is playing with a heavy heart at the Paris Olympics after her sister-in-law died a couple days before the Games began.Lulu Conner, 26, died Tuesday after traveling to Paris to cheer on Steffens as she goes for a fourth consecutive gold medal with the U.S. team. The family is still piecing together what happened, but Steffens described the situation as 'a medical emergency.
Lulu was an artist — she made her own version of Flavor Flav's USA Water Polo clock for the Olympics — a UC Davis grad and one of three siblings.While she was on the American boat for the opening ceremony on Friday night, Steffens dropped a small bouquet of flowers into the Seine River in remembrance.'It's going to be a really hard couple weeks for all of us,' she said. 'My team has been a really big support system for me.
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