Lindsey Vonn says she is sore but otherwise fit to race in Sunday's world championship downhill in Sweden which will be her last race before retiring.
The 34-year-old American crashed badly in Tuesday's Super G but was able to ski down the course and said her knees, which had caused her pain after multiple surgery, were unaffected.
"I got the wind knocked out of me and my ribs are sore. It will be fine - Sunday will be great," she told reporters, adding also that no one should discount her as a medal candidate.
"Don't count me out," she said.
Vonn, starting immediately after race winner and US teammate Mikaela Shiffrin, was looking on a fast run in the super-g, but caught a gate from a jump and pitched forward before sliding off the course into a safety fence.
"It happened really quickly," she said.
"I think I had the right line coming in but that roll jump had a bit a crown to it. I think one of my skis got hooked up and sent me straight into the panel."
Vonn took some time to get to her feet but did not need the ski stretcher brought to the scene by medics, and skied down to the finishing line to warm applause.
Vonn said she had come to terms with quitting after the world championships.
"I will miss the adrenaline. I don't know what's going to fill that void. It's going to be a big void," she said.
"Life without skiing fast is not a happy thought for me."
However the many serious injury setbacks and multiple knee operations mean the time had come to stop. More surgery awaits when she returns to the United States and she realises she will have problems for the rest of her life.
"I am screwed - I've known that for three years now," she said.
Vonn will leave with 82 World Cup wins, five short of beating Sweden great Ingemar Stenmark's record 86, but said she was proud of her career and hoped 62-year-old Stenmark would be at Sunday's downhill.
