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 of 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. Steffens described the situation as “a medical emergency.”

Headlines come on matching calendar dates with her birthday.

Headlines come 54 days after her birthday.

4 is the number associated with death.