Just watched this on Eurosport - absolutely stunning. Can't wait for the World Championships towards the end of March Did anyone else watch it ??

I've watched it throughout the week. Wasn't Plushenko fantastic?

i watched it last night and again this morning on BBC olympic interactive

He was absolutely fantastic - 2 routines and still came out and did some amazing stuff - a really great champion.

Plushenko's triple, triple, triple in the finale..... absolutely fantastic and it looked effortless.

Absolutely. Wasn't it a triple axel, triple loop & triple toe loop? Amazing! Was great to see him chilled out doing a little boogie afterwards too

OOOhh how do i get to that? Do I have to sit through lots of crap before it wil come on?

I think he's the best I've ever seen - and the best news is that he's carrying on and will be there for 2009!

I know, I was really happy to hear that he'll be carrying on to Vancouver. I stopped watching the figure skating around the time Philippe Candeloro stopped competing, but as Eurosport will be covering the World Championships, I'm going to make sure I keep up with who's who now. As much as I was engrossed with these Olympics, it's so much better when you know the skaters and have your own personal favourites.

I think the Kerrs were great btw. 10th was a great result for them, so hopefully over the next four years they'll move steadily up and might be in with a medal shout in Vancouver.

Ive always loved the Ice Gala, however I missed this years

The skaters have total freedom and can pretty much do as they like. They do backflips and all sorts.

The move Plushenko did at the gala wasn't even included in his routines and most of the other skaters fell when they attempted that. To think he just pulled it out of the bag for the gala is unbelievable for any other skater that move would have been a showpiece of their routine. He is in a league of his own

Ah, I remember the days of Scott Hamilton and our Robin (Cousins), and their amazing backflips in the galas. They had some wonderful routines to go with them, too. Robin could jump amazingly high.

Robin cousins wasnt a patch on John Curry, now there was a skater to match the Russians

Go to BBC2 press the red button for the Olympics you get multi screens then you can choose what you want to watch

press the menu to see the next time the gala is going to be shown

it was on again this morning, they may put it on again this evening they repeated it twice yesterday

BBC 2 decided to show a Gardeners World special and a Timewatch programme whilst this was happening - horrendous scheduling in my opinion, as it means the majority will never get to watch this spectacular event, normally one of the highlights of the Winter Olympics.

Thats why i'm pleased i have interactive and Eurosport

They always showed it in the past

Yes - bitterly disappointing... though they did show about 15 minutes highlights during a break in the ice hockey this afternoon

Yes I watched it and I loved Ploshenko and all the Pair Skaters as well. They did some jaw dropping stunts.

The commentator said it was a special night for Ploshenko as it was the first time his mum had come to watch him skate as before, she thought she would put him off. So I bet he felt pretty emotional

I'm watching skating now on BBC interactive