[5] Boeckmans made his Grand Tour début at the 2012 Tour de France, where he was earmarked as one of the squad's main sprint contenders, along with Kenny van Hummel; Boeckmans took his first top ten placing on stage 4, when he finished eighth on the stage.

[6] After two years with Vacansoleil–DCM, Boeckemans left the team at the end of the 2013 season,[7] to join Lotto–Belisol.

[8] However, on the eighth stage, 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.com, he suffered "facial trauma and fractures, a concussion, broken ribs and a punctured lung" and was placed into an induced coma.

[11] Media related to Kris Boeckmans at Wikimedia Commons