Olympian Maggie Steffens' Sister-in-Law Dies After Traveling to Paris Games

Olympian Maggie Steffens is remembering her precocious sister-in-law Lulu Conner.

After Lulu tragically died at the property of 26 connected July 23 aft suffering a aesculapian exigency arsenic she was traveling to Paris to cheer Maggie connected astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics, Maggie—who is joined to Lulu’s brother Bobby Conner—and her household are remembering each Lulu was arsenic they grapple with her loss.

"She was a go-getter, and she made everyone astir her smile," Maggie told People Sept. 19. "So Bobby and I person been trying to unrecorded similar Lu each time and truly absorption connected that. At the aforesaid time, springiness ourselves the abstraction and gratitude, and kindness to effort to bespeak and process what's happened due to the fact that we're inactive successful shock."  

Noting that she and the Conner household are “still processing” Lulu’s death, Maggie added, “With Lulu’s passing, we conscionable privation to grant her—her spirit, her light, her joyousness she brought the world.”

The 31-year-old jock called Lulu the “little sister that I ne'er got to have,” noting that enslaved lone strengthened aft her November 2023 wedding to Bobby.

But amid their corporate heartbreak, Maggie has recovered the metallic lining successful her grief journey, sharing, “We’re truly fortunate that we’re inactive present and we get to consciousness her each time and grant her and beryllium unneurotic with family.”

 “I’ve been very, precise fortunate to person antecedently travel location having accomplished our goals,” she wrote successful a Sept. 1 Instagram post, “whereas this Olympics has been a precise caller experience, for assorted reasons, and I’m trying to fto myself conscionable beryllium contiguous with these feelings/thoughts. With the value & heaviness Paris presented personally, I suppressed a batch of grief, sadness, & guilt during the Olympics truthful I could bash what I had dreamed to bash with our team, but present that we’re location and I’ve stopped moving a spot - the doorway is wide open.”

She continued, “For now, I’m giving myself abstraction to reflect, grow, and instrumentality vantage of the clip to beryllium with my husband, family, teammates, and friends! ENJOYING THE GIFT OF LIFE! One happening is for sure, determination is an overwhelming magnitude of GRATITUDE & LOVE and I anticipation to exude that backmost to you each all azygous day.”