One of the country's leading swimming clubs could be left homeless after a council announced plans to close a city centre pool to save money. Amid mounting concerns over the Olympic sporting legacy for Britain's next generation of athletes, Newcastle City Council said it was considering shutting the Grade Two listed City Pool by 2016. The complex, which boasts a 25m and a 25 yard pool along with spectator gallery, is home to Newcastle Amateur Swimming Club which has produced three Olympians in recent years including double Commonwealth gold medal winner Chris Cook who swam at Athens and Beijing as well as Samantha Foggo and Susan Rolph. Two of the club's newer members, Georgia Darwent, 14 and Tom Howley, 16, have just been called up to the national squad and are hopeful of competing in Rio in 2016. Swimming was one of the few areas in which Team GB failed to meet expectations in London. The sport now faces an almost certain cut to its funding from UK Sport. Meanwhile, as highlighted by The Independent , campaign groups across the country are battling to save local pools and local authorities faced with making millions of pounds in cuts consider further closures. Recent figures have shown that than 200,000 11-year-olds move to secondary school every year unable to reach the Government's target of being able to swim 25 metres. Nearly four out of ten of those unable to swim have never had a lesson despite it forming part of the national