Rising athletics stars Joel Bee and Kate Ryan might be dubbed race favourites but plan to take the Australian Junior Championships hype in their stride.
Middle distance champion James Connor only considered himself an outside chance to win the Macarthur Chronicle Junior Sports Star.
World discus champion Dani Samuels says she is comfortable with being the hunted and not the hunter ahead of the inaugural staging of the Diamond League.
China's former Olympic 110-meter hurdle champion Liu Xiang on Monday headed to the world indoor championships in Doha, and his coach Sun Haiping kept a low key about Liu's performance.
World triple jump champion Phillips Idowu has withdrawn from the World Indoor Championships in Doha later this week.
Eusebio Caceres set a world junior best for the indoor heptathlon of 5984 points at the Spanish junior championships in San Sebastian over the weekend.