The kind of athletic events to follow? (5)
I believe the answer is:
track
'to follow?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'the kind of athletic events' is the wordplay.
'the' becomes 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects).
'kind of athletic events' becomes 'rack' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
't'+'rack'='TRACK'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for track that I've seen before include "recording" , "racecourse" , "A prepared course for racing on" , "Racing circuit" , "path to follow" .)