why would terrorists want to attack the sochi 2014 winter olympics?

[rodney h]

Because their is a country from every continent at the Olympics which means any terrorism would have an impact over the entire world, not just Sochi.

Also, there is intense media coverage of the Olympics, including thousands of photographers and reporters there to cover the games. This means whatever they did would be covered immediately and distributed on a world wide basis.

If you look back to the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, the Palestinian attack on the Israeli athletes is still talked about today. The group, Black September, gained immediate notoriety and more than 40 years later is still in history books. And that was long before social media.....

So if you were a small terrorist cell, looking to make a name for your group, become famous world-wide and make sure you were never forgotten, then it would make sense to attack the Olympics.