International and U.S. Olympic Leaders Agree on Revenue-Sharing Plan The United States put itself in position to once again win a bid to host an Olympic Games after Olympic leaders this week ended their longstanding, contentious debate about how to divvy some of the Games" revenue, two people close to the discussions said Wednesday. International and United States Olympic officials finally renegotiated an agreement on how to share television and marketing money, said two Olympic officials who asked to remain anonymous because the agreement had not been completed. Terms of the agreement have not been disclosed, but the new revenue-sharing deal will not start until 2020 and will last until 2040, the officials said. Part of the deal will include the United States" promise to raise millions of dollars to contribute to the staging of future Olympics. The Associated Press first reported that an agreement had been reached. That new agreement may be signed as early as Wednesday evening, after executives from the United States committee and the International Olympic Committee vote on it. As soon as that happens, the United States Olympic Committee will consider supporting a bid for the Games, said Patrick Sandusky, a spokesman for the organization. "We've been pretty adamant in saying we're not bidding for the Olympics until this agreement is done," Sandusky said. But a deal with the I.O.C. could certainly change that. The last time the United States played host to an Olympics was in 2002, when Salt Lake City was the site for the Winter Games. The last Summer Olympics in the United States were the 1996 Atlanta Games. The prospect for another Olympics being held in the United States any time soon became bleaker as discussions about revenue-sharing dragged on for more than two years. The debate focused on the size of the financial slice the United States Olympic Committee should receive from the Games. Some international officials bristled that the United States committee had been receiving too much of its fair share. Based on an open-ended contract from 1996, the United States was receiving a 12.75 percent share of United States broadcasting deals and a 20 percent portion of global marketing revenues. But the United States committee's unwillingness to rejigger those percentages stirred up ill will and hampered its efforts to bid for the Games. In 2009, amid revenue talks, the United States suffered an embarrassing loss when Chicago's bid to play host to the 2016 Summer Games finished last in I.O.C. voting. President Obama and Michelle Obama had flown to Copenhagen for the vote, giving impassioned speeches to the international committee about why their home city would be the perfect host. But even that did not help the Americans" effort. That failure came not long after New York had lost its bid to play host to the 2012 Olympics. It was voted out of the running in the second round, dealing the United States committee a smarting blow. Soon after, United States officials said that they would suspend bidding for future Olympics until the revenue-sharing situation was worked out. Chicago, New York, Dallas and Las Vegas had shown interest in bidding for the 2020 Summer Games, but the United States committee refused to support those bids. Las Vegas went ahead and sent the I.O.C. its bid proposal anyway, but was rebuked because it had no support from its own Olympic committee. Now Istanbul, Tokyo, Baku, Doha and Madrid are in the running to host those Games. The next Olympics that could be held in the United States would be the 2022 Winter Games. Some of the cities that have shown interest in bidding are Salt Lake City; Denver; Reno-Lake Tahoe, Nev.; and Bozeman, Mont.