In a press released, Lotto-Soudal explained that Kris Boeckmans has returned to Belgium, where he will remain hospitalised. On September 11, the rider was transported by a medical flight, shortly after being awakened from an induced coma.

On the eighth stage of the Vuelta a Espana, he was involved in a large crash: he was drinking from a bidon and hit a hole in the road, falling hard to the ground. According to Cyclingnews, he suffered "facial trauma and fractures, a concussion, broken ribs and a punctured lung" and was placed into an induced coma.