(CBS News) While many of us are avidly watching the Olympics right now, the world-wide event well-known for smashing records left and right every four years, a new world record may have just been ...

Bania bests the current Guiness World Record for “Highest Standing Jump” by over five inches. The current official record is 58.27″ set by Jonas Huusom of Denmark in August 2011.

He won eight gold medals in three Olympics and is among the top 10 all-time gold-winning athletes. It is a different matter that his unprecedented feats came in events no longer in existence now: the ...